Jeremy Denk, piano: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 The esteemed pianist Jeremy Denk—MacArthur Fellow, writer, and noted musical commentator—performs Book I of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the preludes and fugues that Beethoven referred to as his musical bible.
Jeremy Denk, piano The esteemed pianist Jeremy Denk-MacArthur Fellow, writer, and noted musical commentator—performs Book I of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, the preludes and fugues that Beethoven referred to as his musical bible. Denk has written insightfully about Bach as a great humanist, describing how the composer's music represents an "intoxicating combination"-a feeling of the divine balanced with the earthly beauty of logic and discipline.
Under the baton of conductor Chen Xieyang, the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra and the China National Traditional Orchestra will perform a fusion of classical symphonic and traditional Chinese music at a gala on Thursday at the capital's Tianqiao Performing Arts Center.