Conductor and pianist highly regarded for his elegant interpretations of Chopin and Liszt
The Hungarian pianist Tamás Vásáry, who has died aged 92, was highly regarded for his elegance and clarity of …
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The Goldberg Variations album review – Yunchan Lim untangles Bach’s complex web of threads ⊕
Yunchan Lim
(Decca)
The 21-year-old pianist gives a fine, muscular account of the Goldbergs, with touches of playfulness, in this live recording from Carnegie Hall
Yunchan Lim recorded the Goldberg Vari…
36 days ago
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas album review – Capuçon brings warmth, restraint and reflection ⊕⊕
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Renaud Capuçon
(Deutsche Grammophon)
These performances of Bach’s solo works are elegant and persuasive – balancing a modern tone with an alert awareness of period style
To celebrate his 50th birthday, …
3 months ago
‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light ⊕
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Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime
The best fictional detectives are famed for their intuition, an ability to spot some se…
Víkingur Ólafsson: Opus 109 album review – pianist’s concept album opens up transcendent vistas ⊕
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Olafsson’s account of Beethoven’s Op 109 is one of the most beautiful on record, the centrepiece of a recording that links the composer to Bach and Schubert
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Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years ⊕
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Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of research
Two long-lost organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed in German…
Barbara Bach captured America's hearts as a Bond girl... see her now after 44 years as a Beatle's wife ⊕
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Barbara Bach, 79, captured the hearts of young men across America as a Bond girl before marrying mega-star Ringo Starr after love at first sight... see her now 44 years of marriage.
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety ⊕
From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured
Accepting a literary prize in Ohio last year, the novelist Zadie Smith descri…
4 months ago
‘All roads lead to Grace Jones’: visual artists on the music that fires them up in the studio ⊕⊕
Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson enjoys everything from Bach to the Cure. Artists reveal the bangers that get their creative juices fizzing
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Gramophone Classical Music Awards honour Simon Rattle for a second time; Raphaël Pichon’s Bach takes top prize ⊕⊕⊕
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The awards also included a lifetime achievement honour for Sir Thomas Allen and two gongs for Spanish violinist María Dueñas
The Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2025 were announced last night at a c…