In the Baroque period, all keyboard instruments were referred to as 'clavier,' which is relevant to Bach's 'piano' music.
Cultural Impact
Bach's keyboard music influenced many great successors, including Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, and Shostakovich, who engaged with it in their own significant compositions.
Performer Biography
Konstantin Lifschitz, one of the pianists on this album, was taught by Alfred Brendel.
Critical Reception
Johann Sebastian Bach's contemporaries sometimes viewed his demanding fugues as theoretical music, highly elaborate but almost unplayable.
Interpretation
This album features four pianists, including Konstantin Lifschitz (born 1976) and Carl Seemann (born 1910), representing different periods of interpretational history, from 'New Objectivity' to highly virtuoso art.
