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JS Bach

July 2024

  • The movement is more a cleansing expulsion of emotion … Nangaline Gomis in Close Up.

    Close Up review – zoom in on a sporty dance of cool control

    Noé Soulier’s new piece has six dancers, five musicians and one fixed camera which picks out details from individual and entwined figures

February 2024

  • Opera North’s production of Rachmaninov’s Aleko Elin Pritchard as Zemfira lying draped over a big armchair

    The week in classical: Cavalleria rusticana/Aleko; Bath BachFest review – passion and penitence

    Opera North pairs Mascagni’s masterpiece with teenage Rachmaninov in a potent double bill. Plus, well-tuned extremes from Tenebrae and a blizzard of notes with Mahan Esfahani

October 2023

  • Ardent chemistry … Nicole Ansari-Cox as Anna and Brian Cox as Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Score review – Brian Cox is magnetic as JS Bach in a clash of values

    The Succession star excels in Oliver Cotton’s play about the meeting between the composer and Frederick the Great
  • Víkingur Ólafsson.

    Home listening
    Classical home listening: Bach’s Goldberg Variations/Reimagined; Errollyn Wallen

    Bach’s miraculous work is given outstanding expression by Vikingur Ólafsson, and a bold baroque treatment by Rachel Podger and friends
  • Vikingur Olafsson

    ‘An encyclopedia of how to think and dream on the piano’: Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations

    The star Icelandic pianist is having an extraordinary year – recording, and now performing, Bach’s monumental work 88 times around the world. He explains why it gripped his imagination, and pushed him beyond the limit

September 2023

  • Víkingur Ólafsson- Bach’s Goldberg Variations - 22-09-23 Credit- Pete Woodhead-8

    Víkingur Ólafsson review – Icelandic pianist brings magic and spontaneity to Bach

  • Brian Cox stars in The Score at Theatre Royal Bath in October.

    After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

June 2023

  • Dancers and viol players in The Art of Being Human, which had its UK premiere at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival.

    The week in classical: 74th Aldeburgh Festival; Werther – review

  • Superb performers … Richter Ensemble.

    Webern: String Quartets; Bach: The Art of Fugue review – warm performances of enigmatic works

April 2023

  • Chanáe Curtis (Girlfriend 1), Idunnu Münch (Girlfriend 3), Nadine Benjamin (The Mother) and Sarah-Jane Lewis (Girlfriend 2) in Blue by Jeanine Tesori @ London Coliseum.

    The week in classical: Blue; Bach: Mass in B Minor – review

  • Every word registered … Polyphony

    St John Passion review – Polyphony and OAE deliver an outstanding, vivid rendition

October 2022

  • Alisa Weilerstein

    Alisa Weilerstein review – Bach’s cello suites sing and dance, but insights and introspection present too

    Weilerstein’s tour de force performance of the six suites – spread across two concerts – was full of eloquence, colour and remarkable dynamic control

September 2022

  • Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Pavel Kolesnikov in The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

    The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988; Nureyev: Legend and Legacy review – making sound visible

  • Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

    The Goldberg Variations review – De Keersmaeker’s strange and sober journey into Bach

August 2022

  • Benedict Cruft

    Other lives
    Benedict Cruft obituary

    Other lives: Violinist with a passion for Bach who became dean of music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

July 2022

  • Full-on treatment … Conrad Tao plays at Wigmore Hall, London.

    Conrad Tao review – full-blooded piano playing with a dash of quirk

    Tao’s programme exploited his talents to the full, including a ‘pandemic repertoire’ of Beethoven, Adams and Tao himself

May 2022

  • Jeremy Denk<br>The pianist Jeremy Denk performing a solo recital at Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon, April 17, 2016.(Photo by Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images)

    Jeremy Denk review – Well-Tempered Clavier is reshaped and illuminated afresh

    Playing Bach’s mammoth work from memory, the US pianist brought wit, insights and lightness of touch

February 2022

  • Tamara Stefanovich.

    Tamara Stefanovich: 20 Sonatas review – a remarkable feat of sustained pianism

    The pianist’s breathless three-part recital mixed the baroque and the modern, taking on sonatas from the Bachs to Soler
  • Le Lido, The Parisian Cabaret Situated On The Champs Elysees Reopens To Paris<br>PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 16: Dancers perform on stage at Le Lido on September 16, 2021 in Paris, France. Paris' world-famous cabaret venue Le Lido, celebrating their 75th anniversary has been closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The dancers perform again in the show “Paris Merveilles” produced and directed by Franco Dragone. Over 1100 guests can attend the show. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images )

    Brief letters
    The organist’s dance of the deaf

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  • Rachel Cooke

    Notebook
    Some of François Truffaut’s new wave films are still coming of age

    Rachel Cooke
    The Bride Wore Black has something to say to modern audiences, but let’s draw a veil over The Woman Next Door
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