Bach On A Steinway marks the first release on the new- Steinway & Sons Record label. This all-new recording of keyboard masterpieces features pianist Jeffrey Biegel playing on another kind of keyboard masterpiece: a Steinway Model D, handcrafted and specially selected for this project. Biegel brings his own considered ornamentation to these Baroque gems, offering [...]
Music &Poetry Entropy | 07 Jul 2009
If Bach had been a beekeeper he would have heard all those notes suspended above one another in the air of his ear as the differentiated swarm returning to the exact hive and place in the hive, topping up the cells with the honey of C major, food for the listening generations, key to their [...]
Music &Poetry Entropy | 22 May 2008
J.S. Bach is being regarded as a genius of Western music. In fact Brahms described Bach’s Chaconne (BWV.1004) as containing ‘a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the most powerful feelings. This poem by Lars Gustafson wonderfully expresses Bach’s influence on classical music The Silence of the World before Bach There must have been [...]
Meditation-Introspection &Poetry Entropy | 09 Jan 2008
Strong relativism and openness are well known to be important dimensions in the temporal sphere at the basis of Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry. The way in which she links the past with the present, the present with what is to come and the event/experience of a moment with the weightless dimension of eternity is what gives [...]