Bach, Johann Sebastian
The conductor and keyboardist Karl Richter’s legacy can be explored anew with a 100-disc box set. Source
Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings. Source
Brandon Patrick George, a member of the adventurous Imani Winds, releases his debut recording. Source
Listen to spirited, sublime works by Bach, Handel, Purcell and others. Source
On a new recording of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, the superstar artist stretches the music beyond taste. Source
For 20 years, the superstar pianist resisted playing this towering work in public. Now he’s releasing not one recording of it, but two. Source
Parker Ramsay thinks so. He has arranged the “Goldberg” Variations, a keyboard classic, for the modern pedal harp. Source
Dan Tepfer has programmed a computer to invert the “Goldberg” Variations. Take a listen. Source
Listen to the music of Heinrich Schütz, a 17th century pathbreaker whose work is largely unknown today. Source
The rising musician Alexi Kenney juxtaposed Baroque and contemporary solo works in a recital that revealed a kinship among them. Source