In the last years of his life, J.S. Bach embarked on a daunting project: a cycle of fugues and canons, about 80 minutes in length, entirely derived from a single cellular strand of melody. He ...
J.S. Bach's final work, The Art of Fugue, is a masterpiece of baroque composition. Representing the culmination of Bach's abilities as a contrapuntal composer, it also serves as a message (and an ...
The long-awaited finale in the four-year Bach Odyssey that Angela Hewitt began in 2016 presents the composer's ultimate and final masterpiece, The Art of Fugue. Hewitt brings new revelations to Bach ...
The news Sunday afternoon was a prodigious live performance of arguably the least performable and unarguably greatest contrapuntal exercise in the history of music, Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue,” by ...
Organ virtuoso Joan Lippincott plays J. S. Bach's "The Art of Fugue." A highlight of the Westminster Choir College 2008 Bach Festival was organ virtuoso Joan Lippincott's performance of J. S. Bach's ...
2 Broadway Shows Weather the Storm: What Happens to Performances During Major NYC Snowfall? The internationally lauded pianist Kimiko Ishizaka will perform Bach's incomparable keyboard work, The Art ...
The Amernet String Quartet will perform one of Bach’s most monumental and perplexing works with the St. Andrew’s Bach Society on Sunday, Aug. 25. Bach left no performance instructions for “The Art of ...
The music of J.S. Bach rarely finds its way onto the ballet stage, and even less when accompanied by the pipe organ. However, Bach Society Houston director Rick Erickson and New York City’s SYREN ...
During the late 1970s, Glenn Gould and filmmaker and musician Bruno Monsaingeon planned an extensive series of television films on the music of Bach. Broadcast between 1979 and 1981, the three films ...