Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

An early biography of composer J.S. Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forke tells the story of how the famous variations known as Goldberg Variations came to be. Bach received a commission from Count Hermann ...

Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

The creative, conductorless string orchestra A Far Cry and pianist Simone Dinnerstein bring a whole new vibe to the Bach ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Parker Ramsay thinks so. He has arranged the “Goldberg” Variations, a keyboard classic, for the modern pedal harp. By Parker Ramsay I suppose I have ...

Afterwards, Ólafsson explained himself; that grumbling criticism had clearly struck a nerve. A complex eye operation had impaired his vision when he hoped to prepare the Beethoven. Likeable as ever, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick In his debut on the main Carnegie stage, Olafsson gave a spectacular reading of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. By Oussama Zahr On ...

The work has a unique aura surrounding it, partly due to its immortalisation on screen, in books, and through certain seminal recordings. Perhaps like no other piece by Bach, the Goldbergs have ...

The film "The Silence of the Lambs" was released in 1991.Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, is a highly intelligent and polite man, yet he is also a terrifying criminal.In one of the ...