Bach Archive

The origin of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is as follows: The ambassador to Saxony, often visited Leipzig. Among his servants there was a talented young man, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg – a harpsichordist (Cembalist) who was a …

The Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826, begins with a Sinfonia in the form and style of a French overture. An austerely noble, dotted-note introduction leads to a long and finely spun …

Andras Schiff is one of the world’s major pianists and teachers. While I have enjoyed his playing of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, he spends a great deal of time in this concert to …

This concerto for Oboe was composed during the 1700’s; and  a number of theories exist that provide conflicting background to its origin. The concertos Bach wrote for one or more harpsichords and string instruments during …

The SICILIANO is an Italian dance (in English Siciliana; in French Sicilienne), usually in a minor key, in the meter of 6/8, which uses the distinctive rhythmic figure: dotted eighth, sixteenth, eighth. This theme has …