Back-to-back concerts at Bates College explore the music of two composers associated with the formative years of Viennese classical music, Franz Josef Haydn and Luigi Boccherini. The Parker Quartet ...

Regarded as one of the world’s foremost players of harpsichord and fortepiano, Andreas Staier comes to Bates College to perform fortepiano music by Haydn at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, in the Olin Arts ...

“The music stays as beautiful as it is,” said Andreas Staier, an eminent interpreter of early keyboard music who has a rare blood disease. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Cologne, Germany The ...

Andreas Staier's reputation as an exacting interpreter of keyboard music is largely founded, as far as UK audiences are concerned, on his work as a fortepianist. For his Wigmore performance of Bach's ...

Andreas Staier plays Bach's Goldberg Variations on a copy of this famously grand harpsichord built in 1734 by Hieronymus Albrecht Hass currently housed in Hamburg, Germany. All week, we're exploring J ...

Every now and then a CD comes along which paints a familiar piece in completely new colours. This recording of Beethoven’s immense set of “33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli” is one. The ...

In 1819, Anton Diabelli invited 50 composers to contribute a variation to a composite volume that was to be a snapshot of Viennese musical life. Each was sent a sheet with the theme and space for ...

Playing Schubert on an 1839 fortepiano, the pianist’s typically crisp delivery and focus was bedevilled by the fragile instrument We are so used to the uniformity and reliability of concert grands ...

Schubert’s wonderful pair of late piano trios are here coupled with the single-movement Notturno believed to be a rejected slow movement from the first one. They are both large-scale works, and the ...

On the BMW of harpsichords, Andreas Staier takes a drive through Bach's Goldberg Variations. Stick Your Head Into A High Performance Harpsichord Stick Your Head Into A High Performance Harpsichord ...