The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Pythagoras thought the cosmos was all about numbers and their relationships, an idea that always struck my liberal-arts mind as dry and cold and impossibly lacking ...

Bruce had Bach on the brain when putting together this week's Puzzler. To get a taste of the real thing, we hear Andras Schiff play the Sarabande from Bach's English Suite No. 4.

Bach’s keyboard partitas and suites, both the English and the French, have long been staples of Piotr Anderszewski’s programmes. But although the sixth of the English Suites, in D minor, was included ...

Polish-born Piotr Anderszewski is no stranger to playing Bach’s English Suites. He first recorded them more than 10 years ago. But time and experience has honed his expressive interpretations. His ...

(6) English Suites Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Masaaki Suzuki, Harpsichord Viewing the English Suites as a kind of laboratory of experiment in style management by a young composer striding forth, ...

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On one side of 1st Street in downtown L.A., Einstein looms large. On the other side, Socrates. Who can possibly walk among them? Why, Bach, of course. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the ...

Listeners familiar with Alexandra Papastefanou’s Bach will not be surprised how she also makes the composer’s English Suites feel right at home on the concert grand, while conveying astute stylistic ...

Bach’s “English Suites” are among his most diverting music for the keyboard, where a delight in patterns and brilliant finger-work crowds out a severe contrapuntal approach. Bach’s encyclopedic ...

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