Bach wrote four sets he called Clavier-übung, or keyboard practices. The first two and the last one contain some of his most famous harpsichord works now the province of pianists – the Six Partitas, ...

The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...

I've just ended a year of playing Bach, and it was a no-nonsense deal. Like going hunting with your father-in-law. Every day started with a shouting match in my head. Stop! Intruder! Call the keyboard ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

While listening to András Schiff’s new recording of J.S. Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier” on headphones as I stared up into the crown of a maple tree, it suddenly struck me that listening to Bach is ...

The preludes and fugues that make up Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” operate on multiple levels at once — they’re a compilation of techniques for keyboard writing, a polemic on the subject of tuning ...

Music lovers, and especially Bach aficionados, will have a rare opportunity on Sunday, Nov. 13, when noted keyboardist Carsten Schmidt plays the whole of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, ...

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 ...

Live at BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: Sir András Schiff performs Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. The master pianist plays nearly two hours of music that for many represents both ...

I don’t think the scholars have yet argued that, among the ear-stretching range of moods and effects encompassed across these 24 pieces, comes a spooky anticipation of Seattle grunge. Listening to ...

The two volumes of Bach’s The Well-Temperd Clavier together represent one of Western music’s greatest achievements. Once described as the ‘Old Testament’ of the keyboard repertoire, these two ...