JUST before this year’s Super Bowl, a Philadelphia Eagles devotee sat down at an organ and started to play. There were more melodies than the average fan may have been used to, but the instrument soon ...
Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” was one of the baroque master’s final works, one of his more complex, and also one of the more mysterious. Guest musicians Dana Robinson and Charlotte Mattax Moersch, organ ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Bach's unfinished fugue from the Art of Fugue(Public Domain) Bach's Art of Fugue is one of his more ...
This review has been updated. See note below. András Schiff is the Master. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, he played the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.” A book it is. A Bach ...
Many DJs spun, mixed and scratched their way through Johann Sebastian Bach's "Little" Fugue in G Minor for the chance to win $500 in Eugene, Ore., this week. We hear the efforts of the top three ...
Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...
The news Sunday afternoon was a prodigious live performance of arguably the least performable and unarguably greatest contrapuntal exercise in the history of music, Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue,” by ...
He possessed perhaps the most profound musical mind of any composer who ever lived. He left behind a staggering body of works-more than 1,100 pieces of music, plus a good deal more that has been lost ...