Can classical music performance be controversial? Most often, this is true only when a performance departs from contemporary (or not-so-contemporary) conventional wisdom, which often relies on both a ...
The partnership between Faust’s violin and Bezuidenhout’s modern harpsichord was exhilarating It took a few pages of Bach’s Sonata No 1 for violin and harpsichord in B minor for Isabelle Faust and ...
(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001 Chris Thile, Mandolin Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003 ...
(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001 Hilary Hahn, Violin Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003 ...
Right from the opening notes the listener is thrown. Instead of measured grandeur, the Adagio of the Sonata No.1 feels rushed and restless, with almost too much to say. Violinist Gil Shaham has taken ...
Once again, the protean malleability of J.S. Bach's genius is demonstrated by the unusual transcription of his work - in this case, the Violin Sonatas and Partitas - to another instrument, the ...