This is a very curious disc, in which a top-flight pianist seems to be indulging his nostalgia for a pre-lapsarian view of Bach - a return to a time before issues of style and period instruments ...

Under its founder and director, J. Reilly Lewis, the Washington Bach Consort, one of Washington's world-class chamber ensembles, presented an adventurous almost three-hour-long program of "Bach, ...

Bach Italian concertos Alexandre Tharaud (piano) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901871) Bach's transcriptions of Vivaldi, Torelli and the Marcello brothers eventually moved him to compose a concerto of his own ...

How many musicians does it take to play a trio sonata? In his six Trio Sonatas for organ, Bach thought one would suffice, the organist playing one part in the right hand, one in the left and one with ...

Bach's Italian Concerto:Why is Bach's Italian Concerto called a concerto when it's for solo piano? We'll find out the answer, and hear a performance from Winter Park, Florida, with pianist Leon Bates.

Last month, the Pope delighted the music world when he was spotted slipping out of the Vatican to visit a record store in downtown Rome, and leaving with a classical CD in hand. The Pope, known for ...

Victoria Baroque Players: Italian Bach When/where: Sunday, 7: 30 p.m., Church of St. John the Divine (1611 Quadra St.). Tickets: Adults $20, students and children $5. In person at Larsen Music, Long ...

The Music: Bach wrote orchestral movements, or sinfonias, for only 21 of his 200-plus extant church cantatas. Accademia Bizantina perform 19 of them here. Pressure forced Bach to recycle. Look out for ...

(7) Toccatas, Movements: D, BWV912 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer James Tibbles, Harpsichord Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer James Tibbles, ...