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JS Bach

August 2024

  • La Pasión Según San Marcos.

    La Pasión Según San Marcos review – Golijov’s riot of rhythm and colour gets Edinburgh off to a thrilling start

    Osvaldo Golijov’s remarkable take on Bach’s St Matthew Passion exhilarates with its singular mix of textures, styles and movement, brought together into a triumphant mass by conductor Joana Carneiro

July 2024

  • The movement is more a cleansing expulsion of emotion … Nangaline Gomis in Close Up.

    Close Up review – zoom in on a sporty dance of cool control

    Noé Soulier’s new piece has six dancers, five musicians and one fixed camera which picks out details from individual and entwined figures

February 2024

  • Opera North’s production of Rachmaninov’s Aleko Elin Pritchard as Zemfira lying draped over a big armchair

    The week in classical: Cavalleria rusticana/Aleko; Bath BachFest review – passion and penitence

    Opera North pairs Mascagni’s masterpiece with teenage Rachmaninov in a potent double bill. Plus, well-tuned extremes from Tenebrae and a blizzard of notes with Mahan Esfahani

October 2023

  • Ardent chemistry … Nicole Ansari-Cox as Anna and Brian Cox as Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Score review – Brian Cox is magnetic as JS Bach in a clash of values

    The Succession star excels in Oliver Cotton’s play about the meeting between the composer and Frederick the Great
  • Víkingur Ólafsson.

    Home listening
    Classical home listening: Bach’s Goldberg Variations/Reimagined; Errollyn Wallen

    Bach’s miraculous work is given outstanding expression by Vikingur Ólafsson, and a bold baroque treatment by Rachel Podger and friends
  • Vikingur Olafsson

    ‘An encyclopedia of how to think and dream on the piano’: Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations

    The star Icelandic pianist is having an extraordinary year – recording, and now performing, Bach’s monumental work 88 times around the world. He explains why it gripped his imagination, and pushed him beyond the limit

September 2023

  • Víkingur Ólafsson- Bach’s Goldberg Variations - 22-09-23 Credit- Pete Woodhead-8

    Víkingur Ólafsson review – Icelandic pianist brings magic and spontaneity to Bach

  • Brian Cox stars in The Score at Theatre Royal Bath in October.

    After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

June 2023

  • Dancers and viol players in The Art of Being Human, which had its UK premiere at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival.

    The week in classical: 74th Aldeburgh Festival; Werther – review

  • Superb performers … Richter Ensemble.

    Webern: String Quartets; Bach: The Art of Fugue review – warm performances of enigmatic works

April 2023

  • Chanáe Curtis (Girlfriend 1), Idunnu Münch (Girlfriend 3), Nadine Benjamin (The Mother) and Sarah-Jane Lewis (Girlfriend 2) in Blue by Jeanine Tesori @ London Coliseum.

    The week in classical: Blue; Bach: Mass in B Minor – review

  • Every word registered … Polyphony

    St John Passion review – Polyphony and OAE deliver an outstanding, vivid rendition

October 2022

  • Alisa Weilerstein

    Alisa Weilerstein review – Bach’s cello suites sing and dance, but insights and introspection present too

    Weilerstein’s tour de force performance of the six suites – spread across two concerts – was full of eloquence, colour and remarkable dynamic control

September 2022

  • Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Pavel Kolesnikov in The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

    The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988; Nureyev: Legend and Legacy review – making sound visible

  • Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

    The Goldberg Variations review – De Keersmaeker’s strange and sober journey into Bach

August 2022

  • Benedict Cruft

    Other lives
    Benedict Cruft obituary

    Other lives: Violinist with a passion for Bach who became dean of music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

July 2022

  • Full-on treatment … Conrad Tao plays at Wigmore Hall, London.

    Conrad Tao review – full-blooded piano playing with a dash of quirk

    Tao’s programme exploited his talents to the full, including a ‘pandemic repertoire’ of Beethoven, Adams and Tao himself

May 2022

  • Jeremy Denk<br>The pianist Jeremy Denk performing a solo recital at Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon, April 17, 2016.(Photo by Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images)

    Jeremy Denk review – Well-Tempered Clavier is reshaped and illuminated afresh

    Playing Bach’s mammoth work from memory, the US pianist brought wit, insights and lightness of touch

February 2022

  • Tamara Stefanovich.

    Tamara Stefanovich: 20 Sonatas review – a remarkable feat of sustained pianism

  • Le Lido, The Parisian Cabaret Situated On The Champs Elysees Reopens To Paris<br>PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 16: Dancers perform on stage at Le Lido on September 16, 2021 in Paris, France. Paris' world-famous cabaret venue Le Lido, celebrating their 75th anniversary has been closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The dancers perform again in the show “Paris Merveilles” produced and directed by Franco Dragone. Over 1100 guests can attend the show. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images )

    Brief letters
    The organist’s dance of the deaf

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