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 ...

Piotr Anderszewski has recorded Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, sort of. I’ll explain in a moment. Anderszewski is the Polish pianist born in 1969: brilliant, versatile, and individualistic.

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 ...

Christophe Rousset, a remarkable harpsichordist and conductor who occupies a place of high honor among Baroque-music interpreters, scores a triumph with this magisterial reading of one of the ...

The legendary German composer's creation is the most influential piano work in music history, played to this day by musicians who want to perfect their technique. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, ...

I don’t think the scholars have yet argued that, among the ear-stretching range of moods and effects encompassed across these 24 pieces, comes a spooky anticipation of Seattle grunge. Listening to ...

On the title page of “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” Bach’s monumental keyboard collection of preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys, the composer wrote that he intended it “for the profit ...

Imagine an actor playing Hamlet. Then imagine him also taking every other role in the play as well – from memory, without an interval, alone on stage in front of an audience of thousands. That is what ...

Do not read on unless you’ve seen “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” the ninth episode of the first season of HBO’s “Westworld.” There are almost as many “Westworld” fan theories as there are hosts in the ...