All music – indeed all art itself – is a conceit in which the artist perpetrates one or another act of beautiful or decorous vanity upon...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 – Overture; The Beatles 2: Yesterday; Fritz Kreisler 3: Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of...
The second edition of André Pirro’s 1907 classic, L’Esthétique de Jean-Sébastien Bach – The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach – translated by Joe Armstrong and first...
For Ludwig van Beethoven, there was but one way to create art, “Don’t only practice your art,” he said, “But force your way into its secrets...
As long as musicians such as Keith Jarrett play and record Johann Sebastian Bach’s most frequently performed keyboard (harpsichord) works on the harpsichord there will probably...
Preludes 1 – 12: Ken Hatfield, g The guitarist Ken Hatfield is, like Wynton Marsalis, equally adept in the realm of Classical as well as Jazz...
Andre Pirro’s classic, "The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach" brings to life the aesthetic of the master who changed all music since Palestrina, creating a German...
The Brandenburg Concertos are one of the most celebrated and captivating compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. Paced with bracing athletic vigor and featuring some of the...
The magic of these works composed, for sure, for lute-harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach supersedes all of the controversy and fallacious theory that Bach indeed wrote...
At one time, for a rather long period of time, most Christmas music consisted first of music that was liturgical. Although the earliest known Christmas music...