He never heard the blues. He didn't work with drummers. He died nearly a century before the invention of the saxophone. His masterwork was in B minor, not in bebop. So why is Johann Sebastian Bach the ...
Today we're delighted to bring you a film of Daniel Moult playing Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 539 on the Silbermann organ of St Marien, Roetha. It's taken from the forthcoming film project ...
CD1: Prelude & Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902 - 1. Prelude; Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein, Chorale Prelude BWV 734 (Transcr. Wilhelm Kempff); Prelude & Fugue in E Minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, ...
"JS Bach wrote some of the most undeniably beautiful music there is," says Paul Gilbert. "His compositions tend to be more interesting melodically than rhythmically, but I favour melody as a listener, ...
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In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...
And of all the formidable compositions he left behind, his twin volumes of preludes and fugues, The Well-Tempered Clavier, stand alone almost as sacred texts for the keyboard. At the very least they ...
Ever since it was featured in the soundtrack of the 1931 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor has been the unofficial anthem of Halloween. In fact, classical music in ...
One of the most famous movements from J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, this prelude has become a standard piece not only for students but for concert pianists as well. But what's the story behind it ...
Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Bach's Prelude No. 3 from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II by Finnish-Cuban pianist Anton Mejias, from his new album The Art of Memory, on Deutsche ...
In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...