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New Bach Recordings – Three Preludes and Fugues

February 28th, 2011 in Piano Street Site News by

The series of recordings of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier with pianist Martin Sturfält continues. This new installment includes the masterful opening of the second set, Prelude and Fugue no 1 in C major, along with two from the first set; the expressive and introspective no. 18 in G-sharp minor and the large scale “concertante” Prelude and Fugue no. 20 in […]

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New Bach Project Takes Off from the Street: Recording the 48

February 5th, 2010 in Piano Street Site News by | 4 comments

Each of the two volumes of Bach‘s Well-tempered Clavier contains one prelude and one fugue in every major and minor key. Often called “the 48”, or the “Old Testament” of piano music (the new being Beethoven’s sonatas) it is perhaps the most important keyboard work of all time. The preludes are very varied in style and often deal with a […]

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Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Music

October 21st, 2009 in Piano Street Site News by | 3 comments

Gabriel Fauré is considered one of the most influential and gifted French composers of the late romantic and early 20th century period. His early compositions, influenced by Chopin and his teacher Saint-Saënt, are of very romantic character while he later developed a more personal and harmonically complex musical style. The Nocturnes for example were composed over a range of 45 […]

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