He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach’s nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but ...

Principal of the Royal Academy of Music (and Gramophone reviewer) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood is not the first person to record Bach’s Cello Suites on trumpet, but, well, there aren’t many. Like a lot of ...

Today’s Video of the Day showcases Matt Haimovitz on five-string cello piccolo and Christopher O’Riley on clavichord, as they perform Adagio from Bach’s Trio Sonata No.5 in C major. The duo is set to ...

Dmitry Shostakovich’s string quartets can easily entice any author into an abyss of abstract poetic language. And so do the recordings of these deeply personal and very moving pieces. I have always ...

If one wonders why Johann Ludwig – Bach’s distant cousin, employed 150 miles away at the court of Meiningen – was so favoured by Johann Sebastian, these 18 cantatas provide the answer. With so little ...

It takes a strong constitution to tackle the third part of JS Bach’s monumental ‘Keyboard Practice’, which, on a superficial level, is an organist’s contrapuntal textbook, and – with closer scrutiny – ...

The six flute duets may not have been conceived as a set, but like the 12 keyboard Polonaises (that other mainstay of Friedemann Bach’s discography) they showcase his mercurial individualism very ...

The Royal Philharmonic Society have announced the shortlist for its 2026 awards, in categories including the Impact, Inspiration, Storytelling, Young Artist and Conductor. The ceremony will take place ...

On my mother’s side my uncle was Sir Rudolf Bing, and apparently my grandmother was a very, very good classical pianist, though not professionally. Of course, inevitably, I was expected to be a ...

This week sees new recordings of Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, and a bassoonist's songbook Renaud Capuçon vn (DG) Renaud Capuçon's series of recordings ...

Piotr Anderszewski: the pianist on the expressive power of late Brahms; Steven Isserlis pairs sonatas by Schumann and Moscheles; Stella Chen on performing Barber's lyrical Violin Concerto Our February ...

Mr. Shinners is a pianist and harpsichordist and hosts the podcast “W.T.F. Bach.” Classical music has been in a crisis for decades. New generations don’t seem to care about it. The institutions that ...