Accompanist to Frederick the Great and an eminent theorist, the second son of JS Bach was also a composer of rare inventiveness and beauty, as George Pratt explains Dr. Charles Burney, the distinguished music historian, undertook two tours of […]
“From BBC Magazine” It may have been the big Romantic repertoire that made Lang Lang his fame and fortune, but in his early days it was Mozart that kept him grounded. Now, he tells Jessica Duchen, the time has come […]
Between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries the term sonata, from the Italian “to sound”, had no precise meaning when applied to music. Depending on where and when it was used, it could imply a collection of dance pieces; a lute […]
