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It's the keyboard work that has lasted through the centuries - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is the aspiring pianist's go-to text. French pianist Hélène Grimaud, showing off the nimble fingerwork in ...

The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...

French classical guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre performs Bach's meditative Prelude in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier at ...

Playing his own selection of pieces from Bach’s monumental work may be heresy, but Anderszewki’s intelligence, lucidity and joy is undeniable It’s four years since Piotr Anderszewski last released a ...

The harpsichordist describes Bach’s Preludes and Fugues as a ‘challenge and a homecoming’. His thoughtful new recording has a sense of the work’s drama but is never wilful nor perverse Harpsichordist ...

Accessibility of knowledge was crucial to the Enlightenment. That ethos was embodied in the celebrated Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, the first of its seventeen volumes appearing in 1751, the ...

The preludes and fugues that make up Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” operate on multiple levels at once — they’re a compilation of techniques for keyboard writing, a polemic on the subject of tuning ...

Visual artist Alan Warburton has used CGI neon lights to create a haunting animation inspired by Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s recording of Bach’s masterpiece. The result is mesmerising. The animation took ...

Live at BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: Sir András Schiff performs Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. The master pianist plays nearly two hours of music that for many represents both ...

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: C, BWV846 Andrei Gavrilov, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, ...