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 ...

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (Piano) Date of broadcast: 16 October 2012 ...

Book 1 was written in 1722 when Bach was a young keyboardist in the German provinces. Book 2 was compiled - in 1742 - while Bach lived in Leipzig, having in the intervening two decades become ...

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 ...

Though this collection contains very fine performances of some of Bach's greatest organ works, the focus of the recording is as much on the instrument on which they are played as on David Goode's ...

Pianist Konstantin Lifschitz plays two Preludes and Fugues from Book Two of the Well-Tempered Klavier by Bach: the Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F Major, and the Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F Minor.

Pianist Vladimir Feltsman was a media darling when he first came to the U.S. He'd been blacklisted in his native Russia, then arrived here as a musical hero. Feltsman plays Bach's Prelude and Fugue No ...