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 ...

This week's From the Top, hosted by pianist Peter Dugan, celebrates the various ways music has created community in the lives of the featured young artists. The episode features a strong number of ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian’s second surviving son, is full of surprises. You only have to listen to the opening movement of his F sharp minor sonata, composed in 1744, to appreciate ...

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 ...

Deep influences Bach completed his six Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006, by 1720, and they were first published in 1802. It is unlikely Bach ever heard them performed. The three sonatas each ...