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Impressively mature Bach and deeply expressive Romantic giants show the Canadian winner of the 2024 Leeds competition is a talent to watch.

Dans un formidable récital intégralement consacré à Johann Sebastian Bach, le claveciniste est apparu tel qu'en lui-même, dégagé de l'ombre tutélaire de Gustav Leonhardt.

For her program at Duke University’s piano series, Schaghajegh Nosrati selects a Bach partita, two sets of variations, and Alkan’s massive Symphony for solo piano. 

In Goode’s performance, Beethoven’s sonata appeared equidistant from the music of Bach and Schumann that preceded and followed it in the programme. 

Belle découverte que celle du jeune Russe Ivan Bessonov ! Retour sur son récital à la Fondation Vuitton, dans un beau programme construit autour de Bach, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Tchaïkovski et... Bessonov lui-même. 

By using Schumann’s Novelletten to draw a broad dramaturgical bow over the whole evening, Martin Helmchen stands on his own as a bold and highly creative pianist.

An effective Bach, a disappointing Brahms and a generally satisfactory Schubert: Kovacevich fails to grip in Dublin. 

A mixed experience with harpsichordist Noriko Amano and dancer Shusaku Takeachi at the Concertgebouw.

The Partitas are Bach's most grueling works for keyboard, but Koopman's accomplished interpretation brought them to life. 

Angela Hewitt, Julia Schroder and Andrea Oliva play J.S. Bach at Wigmore Hall in London, finishing with The Musical Offering.

András Schiff's Wigmore Hall concert of Bach's six Keyboard Partitas confirmed him as an artist working at the very top of his game.

Almost a year after it started, András Schiff’s Bach project in New York is finally coming to its conclusion. He began on the Upper East Side, at 92Y, with both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier. His performance of Book I, I wrote, was “of the highest quality and depth of thought”.

Young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been much in the news lately: the recipient of two Gramophone Awards (Young Artist of the Year and Instrumental Award for his debut disc), and winner of the Critics’ Award at the 2012 Classic Brits. And he’s in great demand as a performer, if his diary is anything to go by.

The word 'prodigy' is unavoidable when writing about Benjamin Grosvenor, or so it appears for the headline writers. Having eschewed many big concert dates and growing as an artist in smaller halls, he is clearly setting himself up for the long haul. This ambitious, sold-out Cambridge concert showed both how brilliant a pianist he already is, and hinted at how far he could go in the future.