On one side of 1st Street in downtown L.A., Einstein looms large. On the other side, Socrates. Who can possibly walk among them? Why, Bach, of course. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the ...

Harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt returns to a favorite project September 29 at 4:00 pm at St. Francis Catholic Church, when he offers four of J.S. Bach’s enigmatic Fantasias and three demanding English ...

As a little girl, Rochelle Sennet saw a pianist performing on tv, thought it looked cool, and begged her parents for piano lessons. They figured she’d lose interest, as kids often do, but she showed ...

Internationally noted harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt continues his multi-year project of performing all of J. S. Bach’s hundreds of compositions for keyboard. This year he offers two programs of the ...

They’re called Bach’s English Suites, but no one really knows why. Bach never went to England, and the music sounds more French than anything else. But when Rochelle Sennet plays the English Suite No.

Bach’s “English Suites” are among his most diverting music for the keyboard, where a delight in patterns and brilliant finger-work crowds out a severe contrapuntal approach. Bach’s encyclopedic ...