Fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout (bih-ZAY-den-hoat) joins Fred Child in NPR's Studio 4A. Bezuidenhout is a 24-year-old pianist from South Africa who plays both fortepiano and modern piano. When he's ...

The Calgary Bach Society, under the artistic direction of Terry Edwards, launched what looks to be another interesting and exciting season on Sunday, leading off with an afternoon of carefully ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian’s second surviving son, is full of surprises. You only have to listen to the opening movement of his F sharp minor sonata, composed in 1744, to appreciate ...

If Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote a dull piece of music, I've not yet heard it. And even if there is a workaday piece or two lurking within his 300 keyboard sonatas, you certainly won't find it on ...

CPE Bach There's a venerable old quotation, attributed to a variety of philosophers and theologians that goes something like this: when the angels make music for their own enjoyment, it's Mozart, but ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was bound to face a posthumous challenge through having had the great Johann Sebastian for a father. It's an added misfortune that his music falls between the stools of the ...