When Cameron Carpenter plays the organ, it doesn't sound like the organ you hear at the baseball park or like the one playing a Bach fugue in church. His concerts are different, drawing on classics by ...

JUST before this year’s Super Bowl, a Philadelphia Eagles devotee sat down at an organ and started to play. There were more melodies than the average fan may have been used to, but the instrument soon ...

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Choral Preludes from the Kirnberger Collection, Movements: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV699 Peter Kofler, Organ Choral Preludes from the Kirnberger Collection, Movements: Lob sei dem allmächtigen ...

Two local women organists, as it happened, last weekend gave recitals back to back and Bach to Bach. The result was an object lesson in the difference between excellence and mediocrity. The last in ...

It’s exciting news, if a bit niche: Researchers have attributed two new works to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The announcement this week coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Bach Archive ...

Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...

In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...