A Year of Bach
Evan GoldfineBach is the greatest, and I haven't yet heard his complete catalog, so in 2024, I'm listening to every Bach composition and writing about it here.
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Bach’s Transformations, with Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya
In this episode of A Year of Bach, Evan talks with keyboardist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya about her new harpsichord album Transformations, which explores Bach’s adaptations of works by composers including Marcello and Vivaldi. The conversati...
Rooting for the Whale, and Eight Other Thoughts About Moby-Dick
Everyone seems to be reading Moby-Dick these days, so I gave it a go. I have mixed to negative feelings! (Spoilers to a 175 year old novel below.)
- Have I completed a less pleasurable work of fiction? I mostly want those twenty-five hu...
Guitarist Scott Tennant on the Lute Suites and Teaching Bach
What a pleasure to speak to guitar hero Scott Tennant about playing and teaching Bach. We talked about his early days with the instrument, how he became a nylon pumper, and how strange it is that most of us guitarists love the Spanish class...
Erik Hall on Bach and the Minimalists
A conversation with Erik Hall, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and one of the most compelling interpreters of the minimalist canon. We talk about the surprising resonances between J.S. Bach and composers like Steve Reich, Charlemagne Pal...
New Bach Recordings: Yunchan Lim’s Ho-Hum Goldbergs; Lillian Gordis’s Joyful Harpsichord
Insofar as there are any splashy classical releases anymore, Yunchan Lim’s live recording of the Goldberg Variations is being pitched as the record of the year. Decca Records’s press release is breathless:
25th April 2025: Carnegie Hall ha...
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