On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in March, the light through Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s stained-glass windows is a cool, heathered blue. The building’s dark wood interior muffles the sounds of ...

Lucy, who won Channel 4’s The Piano, returns to enchant the world with her incredible musicality and a Bach prelude. Lucy, a 15-year-old blind and neurodivergent pianist from Yorkshire, captured ...

One of the most famous movements from J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, this prelude has become a standard piece not only for students but for concert pianists as well. But what's the story behind it ...

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The ever affable Mr Gilbert greed to let us tab his fabulous version of Prelude In D Major, but it was Paul who played it on the GT CD! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Of all of the works composed by J.S. Bach, his solo Cello Suites are among his best known, and most frequently played. They are also some of the most revered and difficult pieces for the instrument.

Because composers today aren't falling over one another to write music for the lute, lutenists occasionally engage in creative borrowing — adapting music meant for other instruments. Here, one of ...

Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Bach's 'Prelude and Fugue No.22 in B-flat Minor' by Manami Suzuki. This video was taken from her performance at the Hamamatsu International Piano ...

Hungary’s greatest composer Béla Bartók moved to New York during World War II, and he overcame serious health problems to create a musical masterpiece showing off all the instruments of the orchestra ...

In the early 1700s, Johann Sebastian Bach did something few, if any, composers had ever done. He composed six suites for the cello — a four stringed instrument that, at the time, was relegated to the ...