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 […]
Stephen Johnson gets to grips with classical music’s technical terms STACCATO IS ONE of those musical terms that’s entered common parlance. And on this occasion common parlance seems to have got it broadly right. When musicians and non-musicians use the word today […]
AMONG PIANO-PLAYING readers of this blog, quite a few of you will surely have tackled at least one of Debussy’s delightful, and fortunately not too difficult, Deux Arabesques. If you have, did you ever find yourself wondering what it is […]
Thomas Hengelbrock recala por primera vez en Barcelona en el ciclo ‘Palau 100 Bach’ el próximo 11 de diciembre de 2014. Thomas Hengelbrock ha dirigido orquestas desde 1985, y hace casi 20 años que fundó su propia formación de […]
“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 […]
