Happy Bach’s 331st birthday! To celebrate, we had a partita party with violinist Rachel Barton Pine. (What’s a “partita,” you ask? Listen and learn, my friends.) Rachel explains Bach’s sonatas and ...

This week's From the Top, hosted by pianist Peter Dugan, celebrates the various ways music has created community in the lives of the featured young artists. The episode features a strong number of ...

Through his work with the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, violinist Johnny Gandelsman has established himself as a performer of wide-ranging interests and ...

Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces. He takes on Bach's complex sonatas and partitas on his new album.

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

Twenty years ago, Analekta Records released J.S. Bach: The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. It was James Ehnes's debut on the label and it garnered the young violinist his first Juno Award, ...