Regarded as one of the world’s foremost players of harpsichord and fortepiano, Andreas Staier comes to Bates College to perform fortepiano music by Haydn at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, in the Olin Arts ...

“The music stays as beautiful as it is,” said Andreas Staier, an eminent interpreter of early keyboard music who has a rare blood disease. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Cologne, Germany The ...

One useful thing commemorations of composers’ births and deaths should do is remind us that some of the music performed on these occasions, and neglected otherwise, is worth keeping at hand between ...

Appreciation of the harpsichord has come a long way since Thomas Beecham described the piano’s keyboard predecessor as sounding ‘like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof’. Each of the ...

THE York Early Music Festival laid on two evening concerts displaying artistry of the first order. The idea behind the first, Ornate Lieder, was to demonstrate types of vocal ornamentation not heard ...

Schubert’s wonderful pair of late piano trios are here coupled with the single-movement Notturno believed to be a rejected slow movement from the first one. They are both large-scale works, and the ...

If the period instrument movement of the last half century has taught us anything, it's how to quibble earnestly about questions like: Should Bach's keyboard music be played on a harpsichord or piano?

Every now and then a CD comes along which paints a familiar piece in completely new colours. This recording of Beethoven’s immense set of “33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli” is one. The ...

Ever since Glenn Gould’s best-selling recording was released in 1955, Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ have been so popular as to be almost crossover fare. Yet Gould was taking a liberty in transposing ...

If the Kilkenny Arts Festival has whetted rather than sated your appetite for Bach, here’s Andreas Staier swinging into view with new versions of seven harpsichord concertos on two mid-price CDs. The ...

In 1819, Anton Diabelli invited 50 composers to contribute a variation to a composite volume that was to be a snapshot of Viennese musical life. Each was sent a sheet with the theme and space for ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In his illuminating new survey of Bach’s life and works, published by Faber in its deceptively titled “Pocket Guide” ...