Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Nos. 1-7; Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Italian Concerto. Murray Perahia, piano and conducting the Academy of St.

It’s not all about the Brandenburg Concertos – but it’s a good place to start! Discover the magic behind Bach’s fantastic Baroque orchestral music. Of Bach’s mammoth output of more than 1100 ...

The third concert in La Follia's all-Bach concert season is a reprise of one of its most popular programs ever: Bach's concertos for one, two, three, and four harpsichords. Performing are director ...

Like many another composer, Bach was an avid recycler. Two of the harpsichord concertos here – the ones in F, BWV1057, and G minor, BWV1058 – are better known in their original guises, as the Fourth ...

If the Kilkenny Arts Festival has whetted rather than sated your appetite for Bach, here’s Andreas Staier swinging into view with new versions of seven harpsichord concertos on two mid-price CDs. The ...

Arriving from Spain merely days before its first concert, Van Diemen's Band's brand new Ruckers 1624 grand ravalement, double manual harpsichord built by Titus Crijnen, features prominently in this ...

This release fizzes with energy. I’ve long preferred hearing these concertos played on a modern piano. But listening to Matthew Halls’s harpsichord performances have made me completely reassess the ...

Christian Ludwig, an 18th-century nobleman with the title of Margrave of Brandenburg, didn’t deserve the immortality that J.S. Bach’s music has given him. The 35-year-old Bach, at the margrave’s ...

J.S. Bach: Concertos for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1060-62. Bob van Asperen, Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichords; Melante Amsterdam, Bob van Asperen, conductor (Virgin Veritas). Leonhardt’s analog ...

Six incredible works of art, and six reasons they changed everything. In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach carefully packaged together six of his finest concertos and sent them to a Christian Ludwig, ...

Virtuosic, dynamic and overflowing with richly imaginative music, Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos still sound as fresh and exciting today as they must have when audiences first heard these works ...