J.S. Bach wrote these piano studies, Inventions and Sinfonias, between 1720 and 1723 to help instruct his son in the playing and handling of two- and three-part pieces. They are mostly short studies ...

When I was a teenager trying to learn how to play piano, one of the hardest things for me was having to learn two different parts and then put them together. At least, that’s how my teenage brain saw ...

Pianist Dan Tepfer has improvised pieces for his new album, Inventions / Reinventions, using a framework similar to Bach's Two-Part Inventions. In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Anchored by Bach's iconic Two-Part Inventions, the intimate and illuminating ...

It's rare that we offer a classical track, but Austrian pianist Till Fellner is an extraordinary interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach. The sheer beauty of the music and sublime production of the ...

Breathing Life into Bach Banjoist Bela Fleck joins violinist Caroline Goulding, bassist Michael Thurber, and marimbist Yi Wei in performances of Bach's Violin Sonata in G minor, Presto, and Bach's ...

Kirill Gerstein is a Russian-born pianist who has lived in America since his youth. He must be the most famous Kirill in music since Kondrashin (the late conductor). Last night, he played a recital in ...

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In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...