Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) was a Franco-German composer-pianist whose reputation was eclipsed in his lifetime by Chopin and Liszt, among others. Though his music is variable in inspiration, ...

Bach’s Mass in B Minor begins with a majestic howl of pain—four adagio bars that combine formal grandeur with writhing interior lines, as if figures in a cathedral frieze of the Last Judgment were ...

There's no shortage of decent recordings of Bach concertos played on piano. I’d probably rescue my Murray Perahia discs from a burning house and Glenn Gould’s vintage accounts still cast a spell. This ...