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.
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 ...
Why is Bach's violin music so beautiful? Superstar violinist Ray Chen has spent time in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic recording a new album of Bach's music. He talks about the Bach that ...
Rachel Barton Pine records Bach's solo violin partitas and sonatas at St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Chicago Violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s playing isn’t the only sound you hear on her new ...
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 ...
Stradivarius violins are lately on the minds of many Americans, thanks to the media’s coverage of the theft and subsequent recovery of a Strad owned by the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony. One ...
Janine Jansen and friends share their passion for Bach's chamber music. Album of the Weekend, 2-3 November 2013. For her 'Bach Project', Janine Jansen is touring Europe joined by twelve of her closest ...
Baltimore native Hilary Hahn had a homecoming at Kennedy Center Oct. 26, as part of her international tour. (Dana van Leeuwen/Decca) Review by Simon Chin For violinist Hilary Hahn, Friday’s concert at ...
Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...
Two workmanlike pieces by the teenage Bach had their New York premiere at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
"Compared with [J. S. Bach’s] six sonatas for violin without accompaniment, these violoncello solos are light and unpretending. Nevertheless, they are interesting, because they are Bach’s. The first ...