In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian’s second surviving son, is full of surprises. You only have to listen to the opening movement of his F sharp minor sonata, composed in 1744, to appreciate ...

If Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote a dull piece of music, I've not yet heard it. And even if there is a workaday piece or two lurking within his 300 keyboard sonatas, you certainly won't find it on ...

When violinist Michelle Makarski approached her friend, the pianist Keith Jarrett about playing some Johann Sebastian Bach sonatas, recording those works wasn’t necessarily in their initial plans. In ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88), second son of Johann Sebastian, was no pale imitation of his father. He had ideas of his own, as the bristling, thoughtful and imaginative playing on this disc ...

Before his much-anticipated October 23 Carnegie Hall recital, of music by Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann, the magisterial Jewish American pianist Murray Perahia is releasing a new CD on Sony Classical ...

Hungarian pianist Jeno Jando may rightly be proclaimed the utility infielder of classical piano. He has on his resume all of Mozart's piano sonatas and piano concertos, every Beethoven sonata, every ...

When it comes to musical dynasties, it's tough to top the Bach family. From town fiddlers to court composers, the Bachs dominated German music for seven generations. Today, Johann Sebastian towers ...

The Rancho Bernardo Library’s classical concert series continues with a concert of Baroque music. It will be held from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23 in the Rancho Bernardo Library’s second ...

These six sonatas, likely dashed off in the early 1720s between Bach’s weekly cantata duties at the Thomaskirche, were intended to be played at home or in Leipzig’s bustling coffee houses. Violinist ...

Grammy-nominated cellist and former professor Matt Haimovitz is returning to his old stomping grounds this weekend, bringing a high-tech reimagining of the Baroque era to The Drake in Amherst.