Bach Two-Part Inventions

Piano Trills and Bach

Piano Trills and Bach

On a wintry Wednesday, my scarf wrapped over my face, I walked to the university’s music building for my piano lesson. In my gloved hand, I held a book with the Bach Invention No. 1 in C Major, with its tricky piano trills. On the rhododendron bushes lining the path, the leaves hung limply.

Shirley Gruenhut Plays the Bach French Suite No. 5

Shirley Gruenhut Plays the Bach French Suite No. 5

Bach is my basic. It’s always back to Bach, the grand master. As a teenager, I played Bach’s Two-Part Inventions, then the Preludes and Fugues (from the Well-Tempered Clavier Books I and II), and then I discovered the French and English Suites, and I played a lot of both.