J.S. Bach wrote these piano studies, Inventions and Sinfonias, between 1720 and 1723 to help instruct his son in the playing and handling of two- and three-part pieces. They are mostly short studies ...

Breathing Life into Bach Banjoist Bela Fleck joins violinist Caroline Goulding, bassist Michael Thurber, and marimbist Yi Wei in performances of Bach's Violin Sonata in G minor, Presto, and Bach's ...

Pianist Dan Tepfer has improvised pieces for his new album, Inventions / Reinventions, using a framework similar to Bach's Two-Part Inventions. In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set ...

It's rare that we offer a classical track, but Austrian pianist Till Fellner is an extraordinary interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach. The sheer beauty of the music and sublime production of the ...

Kirill Gerstein is a Russian-born pianist who has lived in America since his youth. He must be the most famous Kirill in music since Kondrashin (the late conductor). Last night, he played a recital in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With “Inventions/Reinventions,” Dan Tepfer fills out Bach’s missing two-part inventions ...

Preface includes table of embellishments and examples of variants from the "Klavierbüchlein." Canons, fugues, etc. (Harpsichord) ...

In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...