Etiket: Bach
Bach at the OSM | Between unforeseen events and delights
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra presents this week its annual baroque meeting with the Passion according to Saint John by Bach. A concert generally very satisfactory despite some reservations about certain…
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, transfigured by Bach
I Musici offered on Thursday evening to hear the “great Marie-Nicole Lemieux”, as the ensemble had titled the program, entirely devoted to Bach. An evening where the contralto generally lived…
“PDQ Bach” is dead | The duty
The last of the Bachs has passed away. He was only a fictional character, but he made music lovers laugh for decades. Peter Schickele, the creator of PDQ Bach, died…
Bach Festival Montreal | Namoradze, on the wings of song
Disappointment, on Thursday, to learn of the cancellation of pianist Sergei Babayan at the Bach Festival in favor of an – as far as we are concerned – illustrious unknown.…
Paris 2024 Games | After his visit to the Olympic village, Thomas Bach “very satisfied” with the preparations
(Saint-Denis) IOC President Thomas Bach expressed his “satisfaction” on Friday with the state of preparation of the Olympic installations for the Paris Olympics (July 26-August 11) which begin in eight…
“Bach: Partitas Reimagined”, Thomas Oehler, Trevor Pinnock and the Royal Academy of Music
Here is the team again Goldberg reviewed by Koffler, magical discovery of the year 2021. The transcriber this time is Thomas Oehler, who works on three of Bach’s keyboard partitas.…
The Bach sons emerge from the shadows
The Bach Festival, which this year offers a dozen concerts until December 3, got underway on Friday evening at the Maison symphonique with four rarely performed works by two of…
Reinhard Goebel and the renegades of the Bach family
The 2023 Bach Festival opened on Friday at the Maison symphonique with a highly original concert of works from little-performed sons of the great Jean-Sébastien. Before the break Johann Christian…
Reinhard Goebel behind the scenes of the Bach family
The Montreal Bach Festival opens on Friday with a distinguished guest: conductor Reinhard Goebel, discoverer and beacon of baroque interpretation for 45 years. He will perform, with the excellent pianist…
“Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2″, Frank Peter Zimmermann
After recording with Martin Helmchen a reference version of Beethoven’s sonatas for violin and piano, Frank Peter Zimmermann delivers a complete version of Bach’s sonatas and partitas, of which here…
Thomas Bach and the Chinese Prime Minister against the “politicization of sport”
(Beijing) The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach met Saturday in Beijing with Prime Minister Li Qiang, the two men notably expressing their opposition to the “politicization…
[Critique] Bruce Liu, “French Suite No. 5”, Bach
At the dawn of his week in Montreal with the OSM, relayed worldwide on Wednesday by the Mezzo cameras, Bruce Liu sees the appearance, this Friday, of a “novelty” DG:…
[Critique] “Johannes-Passion”, Bach, Concerto Copenhagen
On the eve of Holy Week, it was tempting to review the publications on the subject. We retained this Passion according to Saint John recorded in Copenhagen in 2021. You…
[Critique] «JS Bach, Clavichord», András Schiff
Oh, a new record from András Schiff! And in Bach, too… But do we really have to follow him in all his rantings? The Hungarian pianist is passionate about instruments,…
“Bach, it’s like a sunset, it’s for everyone”
For the first time, star guitarist Thibault Cauvin is playing Bach for us. A Bach that he wanted to be obvious and simple, and it’s magnificent. Before the concert event…
Thomas Bach | “We share the suffering” of Ukrainian athletes
(Courchevel) Ukrainian athletes “know how much we share their suffering”, assured Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Sunday in Courchevel (France), in response to comments…
Occasional Bach, without pump
Bernard Labadie, the Chapelle de Québec and the Violons du Roy put an end to the 2022 Bach Festival on Friday with a concert bringing together the Cantatas BWV 109,…
Jean-Marie Straub, director of ‘Chronique d’Anna Magdalena Bach’, dies at 89
Jean-Marie Straub, director of ‘Chronique d’Anna Magdalena Bach’, dies at 89 Access to accessibility menu source site-10
Listen to Bach without getting tired
The arrival of the snow marks, year after year, the return of the Montréal Bach Festival. This second post-pandemic cuvée returns with the proven values that have ensured its success…
The Passion According to Saint John: A Grand Kickoff for the Montreal Bach Festival
The opening concert of the most important festival dedicated to Bach in North America will be presented at the Maison symphonique by the prestigious Gaechinger Cantorey of the Internationale Bachakademie…