The Arizona Bach Festival brings superb musicians from around the world each year to join with local artists in presenting ...

J.S. Bach: Violin Partitas Viktoria Mullova, violin (Philips) J.S. Bach: Violin Sonatas and Partitas Arthur Grumiaux, violin (Philips Duo). Viktoria Mullova’s readings of the Bach Partitas are ...

The Arizona Bach Festival brings superb musicians from around the world each year to join with local artists in presenting ...

In one of Bach's better known cantatas, No. 140, Wachet auf — "Wake up!" — Hahn introduces a duet with soprano Christine Schafer as the eager bride and baritone Matthias Goerne as Jesus, the soul's ...

In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...

On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...

Christoph Poppen, violin; Hilliard Ensemble (ECM New Series). Welcome inside the head of J.S. Bach. The composer often embedded familiar Lutheran chorales in his music so as to create devout ...

Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...