All Bach articles – Page 8
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Video
Johnny Gandelsman - Allemande from sixth Cello Suite on 5-string violin
This video captures violinist Johnny Gandelsman in the studio during sessions for his recording of violin transcriptions of the complete Bach Cello Suites. The project is being funded through Kickstarter - click here for the project page
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Shunske Sato on the reconstructed Bach D minor Violin Concerto
Violinist Shunske Sato discusses BWV 1052R violin concerto which he performed with the Netherlands Bach Society for the All of Bach YouTube series. The concerto is thought to have been originally written for violin but survives in Bach’s manuscripts only as a harpshichord concerto. For more information about the Netherlands ...
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Feature
Leon Bosch on playing Bach on the bass
A firm believer in exploring the instrument’s own repertoire, the double bassist is wary of too many awkward and unsatisfying arrangements
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Review
Trio Zimmermann: Goldberg Variations
Three Stradivaris and a new arrangement of this dazzling music
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Review
Rosanne Philippens: Biber, Bach, Enescu, Ysaÿe
A bold, daring, semi-improvised programme that is intensely powerful
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Peter Gregson - Bach Recomposed: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, 6. Gigue
A track from the album Recomposed by Peter Gregson - Bach - The Cello Suites, released last year by Deutsche Grammophon. For the album, Gregson wrote a full set of pieces reworking material from the Cello Suites for various combinations of solo cello, cello ensemble and electronics. It is part ...
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Review
Bach Players: Jacquet de la Guerre
A persuasive case for the chamber music of a composer from the era of Louis XIV
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Review
Two recent Sonata and Partita sets
They approach Bach’s music from opposite sides of the historical divide, and the results make for a fascinating exercise in comparison
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Video
Tomás Cotik performs Bach Largo in 'massive media' work
As part of the Portland Winter Light Festival 2019, the facade of the PSU library becomes a canvas for the projected silhouette of violinist Tomás Cotik. Cotik explains: ‘Ombra’ Musici, (english translation: Musician’s Shadow), is an interdisciplinary work of “massive media.” “Massive media” takes a media form, such as film, ...
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Review
Hilary Hahn: Bach Solo Violin
Exceptional technical command and the utmost integrity and communication
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Review
Kim Kashkashian: Bach cello suites on viola
Playing of subtle light and shade that will bring a smile to your face
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Video
Nicolas Altstaedt plays Sarabande from first cello suite
German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt plays the Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 in G at the Bimhuis Amsterdam This is an excerpt from the 29 November 2015 edition of ‘Vrije Geluiden’ (Free Sounds), a programme on Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. More on: http://www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden
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News
Study of Bach recordings reveals that classical music is speeding up
Evidence gathered from Bach recordings finds that some performances are up to 30% quicker than a half century ago
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Focus
Rachel Podger: 'I played Bach at home in secret'
Bach’s E major Violin Concerto proved to be a defining work on the Baroque violinist’s path towards the period performance movement – despite the peculiar attitudes of her teachers
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Review
Daniel Lozakovich: Bach
Swedish prodigy Daniel Lozakovich draws mellifluous sonorities from his 1713 ‘Baron Rothschild’ Stradivari in this debut disc of Bach