Bach Archive

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was born into a family of musicians. Her father, a choral conductor, and her mother, a pianist, encouraged her instinctive desire to perform. “I spent my childhood in music-making,” she told the BBC …

Johann Sebastian Bach’s partitas are much grander and more technically challenging than his English Suites and French Suites, with larger individual movements. The Partita No. 1 in B flat, published in 1726, is quite an …

In 1731, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) gathered six keyboard partitas that he had previously composed and published individually, and issued them himself as his Op. 1, the first part of his monumental Clavier Übung (Keyboard …

Pianist Evgeny Kissin was born in Moscow in October 1971 and began to play by ear and improvise on the piano at the age of two. At six years old, he entered a special school …

The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (BWV 903), one of Bach’s best known works, is a work of virtuosity and bold harmonic structure.  It is an extraordinary piece – large, sprawling, emotional, and unique in its …