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 ...

Fugue Isabelle Faust, Violin Kristin von der Goltz, Cello Kristian Bezuidenhout, Harpsichord (3) Sonatas for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord, Movements: No. 3 in G minor, BWV1029 Isabelle Faust, Violin ...

In the grim pandemic nadir of September 2020, violinist Soovin Kim stepped out on an empty stage at the New England Conservatory in Boston and performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas ...

(6) Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, Movements: No. 1 in G minor, BWV1020 (doubtful: now thought CPE Bach) Adrian Butterfield, Violin Silas Wollston, Harpsichord (6) Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, ...

The deliberation of the piano playing at the opening of the Sonata in B minor, BWV1014, and the way both piano and violin negotiate a little extra space between phrases, like time taken to ensure a ...

Separate period instruments – and baroque bows – for the partitas and sonatas add drama to Zehetmair’s immense subtlety Thomas Zehetmair was only 21 when he recorded Bach’s solo violin sonatas and ...

These six sonatas, likely dashed off in the early 1720s between Bach’s weekly cantata duties at the Thomaskirche, were intended to be played at home or in Leipzig’s bustling coffee houses. Violinist ...

After years of silence following an injury it seemed Kyung Wha Chung had retired. Then came a return to live recitals (her Royal Festival Hall appearance sparked headlines when she berated a noisy ...

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It was 1998 when Itzhak Perlman and Martha Argerich first collaborated in a recital at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. A live recording of Schumann’s Violin Sonata No.1 from that inspiring occasion ...

According to Kristian Bezuidenhout, “The Sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 are some of the composer’s most elusive and puzzling works… this is music that poses tantalising ...