Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Former boy-wizard Chris Thile has lent his mandolin virtuosity to Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers, and now looks back ...

Have you ever wondered whether classical composers expected performers to vary the repeated sections in sonata movements? This recording sets out the answer – CPE Bach’s answer, in fact: an ...

These performances of Bach’s solo works are elegant and persuasive – balancing a modern tone with an alert awareness of period style To celebrate his 50th birthday, Renaud Capuçon has recorded Bach’s ...

Can classical music performance be controversial? Most often, this is true only when a performance departs from contemporary (or not-so-contemporary) conventional wisdom, which often relies on both a ...

We hear a range of sonatas including Bach performed on marimba, a late Beethoven work for cello and piano, and a Brahms viola sonata. Performed by teens from Arizona and Texas!

(6) Sonatas for Violin and Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Catherine Manson, Musician, Violin Ton Koopman, Musician, Harpsichord Ton Koopman adds profuse ornamentation to his part. His sense of ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of the great Johann Sebastian, didn't write much for organ. But there's such an idiosyncratically cheeky brio to what he did that it's well worth exploring. Ton Koopman ...

It might seem odd for Bach's solo violin music to be transcribed for mandolin. But it's an instrument that Beethoven, Mahler, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Boulez and Ligeti have all written for, and there ...