Accessibility of knowledge was crucial to the Enlightenment. That ethos was embodied in the celebrated Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, the first of its seventeen volumes appearing in 1751, the ...

I don’t think that Sviatoslav Richter, still less Sir András Schiff, would have reminded me of Kurt Cobain at this point. Not even, maybe, Edwin Fischer, whose pioneering 1930s recordings set a ...

The Music Study Club of Iowa City continues to offer live music to a limited audience during the pandemic. On April 14, I was privileged to be part of an enthusiastic group who listened to Nathan ...

On Saturday night in GBH’s Calderwood Studio, pianist Jeremy Denk performed the complete Book 1 of Bach’s beloved ‘Well-Tempered Clavier.’ Bach would have been amazed by Saturday night’s performance ...

Baroque music, especially that of Johann Sebastian Bach, has long attracted jazz artists as a vehicle for improvisation, from the bebop era into the 21st century; in that spirit, New York-based ...

Piotr Anderszewski has recorded Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, sort of. I’ll explain in a moment. Anderszewski is the Polish pianist born in 1969: brilliant, versatile, and individualistic.

Not only across the whole span of the 24 keys, from C major to B minor, but even within the four or five minutes of a single prelude-fugue couple, Bach can take you from the solemn polyphony of a ...

Pianist Jeremy Denk recently released his first memoir, “Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons.” Ahead of his performance of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier at GBH Calderwood ...

24 down, 24 to go. I'm still plugging away at my year-long effort to learn the 48 preludes and fugues of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier." I finished the first book a few days ago and am now immersed in ...