Mountain View classical guitarist Yuri Liberzon has released a new album of Bach sonatas. Courtesy Yuri Liberzon. “For me, his music is everything,” Mountain View classical guitarist Yuri Liberzon ...

When violinist Michelle Makarski approached her friend, the pianist Keith Jarrett about playing some Johann Sebastian Bach sonatas, recording those works wasn’t necessarily in their initial plans. In ...

Through his work with the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, violinist Johnny Gandelsman has established himself as a performer of wide-ranging interests and ...

Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces. He takes on Bach's complex sonatas and partitas on his new album.

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If Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote a dull piece of music, I've not yet heard it. And even if there is a workaday piece or two lurking within his 300 keyboard sonatas, you certainly won't find it on ...

A. For me, the challenge is trying to maintain the same concentration throughout the whole two hours and the only way to achieve that is through practice. I personally think that going over the ...

Despite the title please note that Steven Isserlis plays these sonatas on a cello, not a viola da gamba. We may miss the plangent quality of the instrument of Bach and Handel’s day, but Isserlis ...