One of the most attractive things about pianist and composer Uri Caine is his creative unpredictability. There are no musical genres he fears and, moreover, fears to combine in the post-provocative ...

When pianist Simone Dinnerstein learned she was expecting her first child, she dedicated herself to learning Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Her self-funded recording of them received ...

Bach’s “Keyboard exercise consisting of an aria with several variations for a two-manual harpsichord” from 1741 maintains its fascination, keeps on filling gaps and finding welcoming new places.

Nearly two years ago, New York-based Pam Tanowitz faced a seemingly risky proposition — to choreograph to Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” The masterpiece, written in 1741, remains one ...

Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations is one of those pieces music lovers can’t visit often enough. The violinist and conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky was smitten with it as a young musician, astonished by Glenn ...

The love triangle between composers Clara Schumann, her husband Robert and Johannes Brahms is one of classical music’s more, well, operatic episodes. “Ghost Variations,” a chamber opera streaming in ...

The Classical Variations is, in effect, a commemoration of Uri Caine's decade-long series of ambitious and sometimes idiosyncratic explorations of classical repertoire from Bach to Mahler. It combines ...