One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.
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Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Healing Bach’
The vast and beautiful Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on Manhattan's East Side was an apt setting for Bach's cantatas.
Read More »Concert Review: TENET Vocal Artists – Motets of J.S. Bach (NYC, Sept. 18 2022)
TENET Vocal Artists demonstrated that Bach's motets are as uniquely, miraculously Bach as anything else he wrote for the human voice.
Read More »Concert Review: Crypt Sessions – ‘Journeys’ with Diderot String Quartet, Harry Bicket, John Lenti (NYC, 6 March 2020)
The crypt beneath Harlem's Church of the Intercession hosted a rich-sounding, soulful concert of Baroque music by Bach and others.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Pianist-Composer and Honens Winner Nicolas Namoradze on His Carnegie Hall Debut
Fresh off winning the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, the New York-based pianist and composer will be making his Carnegie Hall debut Feb 10.
Read More »Concert Review: Quodlibet Ensemble – Music by Biber, Martynov + Sharlat
Composer Yevgeniy Sharlat takes Bach's English Suite No. 2 as a starting point, and engineers energetic rhythmic surprises, ear-catching counterpoint, and busy, angsty drama in a prismatic work of accessible modernism.
Read More »Concert Review: Fretwork – ‘J.S. Bach – The Art of Fugue’ (NYC, 12 April 2018)
Bach's contrapuntal masterpiece took flight in the hands of one of the world's premiere viol consorts.
Read More »Music Review: Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout – ‘J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord’
All told, these are some of Bach's most compelling and beautiful works, and it's hard to imagine a finer performance than this.
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Video Premiere: Inbal Segev – ‘Allemande’ from Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major from ‘Bach: Cello Suites’
The celebrated cellist unveils another selection from her new recording of Bach's Cello Suites, which she describes as '[m]asterpieces by perhaps the greatest composer who ever lived.'
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