All Bach articles
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ReviewIsolde Menges: works by Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Schubert, Vaughan Williams et al
A great British violinist is celebrated in fitting style
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ReviewFestival review: Aldeburgh Festival 2024
Harriet Smith enjoys some innovative chamber music performances from Alban Gerhardt and Daniel Pioro at this year’s event
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ReviewConcert review: Scottish Ensemble
Tim Homfray hears the performance of at London’s Wigmore Hall on 21 July 2024
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ReviewKarl Stobbe: Bach, Paganini, Ysaÿe
An artist compels in the Romantics but falls short in Bach
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BlogsA new light on the polyphonic nature of Bach’s Cello Suites, Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Musicologist and counterpoint enthusiast Laurent Matthys makes the case for adopting a contrapuntal mindset when approaching these monumental works of solo string repertoire
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ReviewSimone Lamsma, Candida Thompson: Pärt über Bach
A meeting of minds across the centuries in this imaginatively conceived album
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ReviewMarie Soldat, Adila Fachiri: Beethoven, Spohr, Mozart, Bach, Schumann, Tovey
An enticing snapshot of two towering violinists from the past
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BlogsThe Eternal Bach: celebrating Bach and beyond at New York’s Bach Virtuosi Festival
Ben Pyne reports back from the opening concert of Lewis Kaplan’s Bach Virtuosi Festival, which took inspiration from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft
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ReviewConcert review: Jan Vogler (cello) Amanda Gorman (poet)
Leah Hollingsworth hears the innovative performance of Bach at the Isaac Stern Auditorium in New York’s Carnegie Hall on 17 February 2024
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ReviewBook review: Bach Six Suites for Violoncello solo (BWV1007–12) arranged for viola solo
Misha Galaganov reviews Bärenreiter’s new edition of the Bach Suites edited for performance by violists
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ReviewConcert review: Randall Goosby (violin) Jameel Martin (viola/narrator) Eddie Pogossian (cello) Zhu Wang (piano)
Edward Bhesania listens to the performance of at London’s Purcell Room on 14 January 2024
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ReviewSirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch: Bach
Impeccable if emotionally restrained readings of masterly sonatas
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ReviewConcert review: Hilary Hahn (violin) New York Philharmonic/Jakub Hrůša
Leah Hollingsworth travels to New York’s David Geffen Hall on 12 January 2024 for the performance of Coleridge-Taylor, Bach and Bartók
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Kathleen Parlow: Bach, Grieg, Mendelssohn etc
A treasurable reminder of a great Auer-trained violinist
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ReviewConcert review: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Bruce Hodges listens to the performance of Bach, Britten, Simcock, Brouwer, Finnis and Cassadó at the Perelman Theater, Philadelphia, on 7 November 2023
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Anastasia Kobekina: Venice
Venice offers depths of inspiration in a memorable debut
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FocusPractice Diary: violinist Yuri Zhislin
The Russian violinist works on left-hand articulation, smooth bowing and score analysis in pieces by Bach and Mendelssohn