Kurt Stallmann takes apart Bach’s Inventions and looks at the materials they’re made of. Composer Kurt Stallmann. Continuing with our Bachtober celebration, we revisit this oldie but goody with Kurt ...

In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...

In this episode, composer and pianist Kurt Stallmann talks about the creativity, complexity and beauty packed into Bach's minute-and-a-half-long Two-Part Inventions.

It's rare that we offer a classical track, but Austrian pianist Till Fellner is an extraordinary interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach. The sheer beauty of the music and sublime production of the ...

What is an invention? -- Composing against the grain -- The ideal ritornello -- The status of a genre -- Matters of kind -- Figments of the organicist imagination -- On Bach's style -- Bach as critic ...