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Eleonor Bindman

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Stepping Stones to Bach Book

Stepping Stones to Bach Review!

Published 06/17/19

Pianist, teacher, and writer Frances Wilson has a new review for the first volume of Stepping Stones to Bach on “A Piano Teacher Writes”: “Given… Continue reading Stepping Stones to Bach Review!

Primephonic Interview

Published 01/15/19

Primephonic’s Jennifer Harrington and I talk about the Brandenburg Duets on their blog and explored some of the next steps for me around the project:… Continue reading Primephonic Interview

Four Hands on piano

The Brandenburg Duets: A “Bachumentary”

Published 01/14/19

Introducing a funny short film: “The Brandenburg Duets: A Bachumentary” – a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of my arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos… Continue reading The Brandenburg Duets: A “Bachumentary”

New Playlist – Bach Transformations

Published 11/07/18

Enjoy a new playlist on Spotify and Apple Music highlighting great Bach transcriptions:

Eleonor Bindman and Jenny Lin - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Duets

The Classical Post Reviews The Brandenburg Duets

Published 10/17/18

The Classical Post features The Brandenburg Duets in a new review: EXPLORE “Bach expert and pianist Eleonor Bindman fastidiously transcribed and released a recording of… Continue reading The Classical Post Reviews The Brandenburg Duets

Eleonor Bindman Performs The Brandenburg Duets with Debra Lew Harder on WRTI

The Brandenburg Duets LIVE on WRTI

Published 09/03/18

WRTI host Debra Lew Harder joined Eleonor Bindman for an interview and live performances of The Brandenburg Duets in the WRTI Studios in Philadelphia. See… Continue reading The Brandenburg Duets LIVE on WRTI

Eleonor Bindman, pianist

Brandenburg Duets LIVE from WRTI with Debra Lew Harder

Published 08/14/18

Wednesday, August 15 at 12:10 p.m., Eleonor Bindman joins WRTI Philadelphia host Debra Lew Harder for an interview and performance of the Brandenburg Duets! If… Continue reading Brandenburg Duets LIVE from WRTI with Debra Lew Harder

Brandenburg Duets Interview with David Osenberg on WWFM

Published 07/03/18

WWFM: The Classical Network‘s David Osenberg interviewed Eleonor Bindman about The Brandenburg Duets for his “Cadenza” program, broadcast on June 28, 2018! Listen now: https://eleonorbindman.com/assets/uploads/2018/07/EleonorBindman-Cadenza-June28.mp3… Continue reading Brandenburg Duets Interview with David Osenberg on WWFM

New Spotify Playlist – The Charm of Piano Duets

Published 05/04/18

Enjoy a new Spotify playlist from Eleonor Bindman highlighting the charm of the piano duet!

Duo Vivace Performs Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Published 03/14/18

Duo Vivace performs Eleonor Bindman’s new transcription of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 for Piano Duet: Learn More About Duo Vivace Explore The Brandenburg… Continue reading Duo Vivace Performs Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Eleonor Bindman, pianist

The Brandenburg Duets are taking over Apple Music

Published 03/07/18

The Brandenburg Duets is making its way into Apple Music playlists! The fourth movement from Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 is now featured in Apple Music’s… Continue reading The Brandenburg Duets are taking over Apple Music

The Brandenburg Duets

Brandenburg Duets Now Available For Pre-Order

Published 02/09/18

Pre-Order & Peview The Brandenburg Duets today! After a marathon of 3 days and 371 takes last August, Eleonor completed the double CD recording of… Continue reading Brandenburg Duets Now Available For Pre-Order

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what a marvelous Bach performer… The prelude from Partita 1 is deliciously slow and expressive, with unexpected marking of inner voices, beautiful ornamentation, shimmering tone.… There’s not a bad movement in the bunch, so I will list a few of my favorites: first of all, I love the thoughtful and poised allemandes; I used to think of them the same way until my harpsichord teacher Arthur Haas convinced me that the one from Partita 6 should be played like a rather quick Italian Allemanda. Maybe so, but Bindman’s slower account is pulling me back in the other direction.… The gigue from Partita 5 is likewise graceful, the interaction among the three voices beautifully controlled and radiant.”

—Rob Haskins
American Record Guide

Bindman’s very special ability to breathe life into the musical events and to give every theme, every figure a shape, even a human profile, also characterizes the fast dances, which never slip into mere motor skills, but are lived through emotionally, are intelligently thought out and logically completed. In this way she lends a fascinating stringency and inner tension even to the slow-motion sarabands, directed inward, so that Bach’s deep spirituality can also be felt here, while in the fast gigue and courante movements she conveys Bach’s life energy with impressive, pedal-free precision and instantaneous drive conjures: There are timeless signals from the galaxy, and everything grooves and swings as if they were messages from today: a fascinating album.”

Attila Csampai
Rondo

“If I had to describe these performances in a single word, that word would be “affectionate.” Bindman clearly loves this music, and she plays it caressingly, as a lover would. … I’d like to point to the aforementioned Sarabande from Partita No. 3, which, under Bindman’s fingers, becomes an absolutely hypnotizing and eloquently grave meditation on the expressive power of 16th-note triplets. This is why we listen to new recordings of music we love—to shine a light on it of which we had not previously been aware.… This release excited my admiration from the moment I started playing it, and that attention has not waned over the course of more than a week. This could be on my Want List at the end of the year.”

Raymond Tuttle
Fanfare

Bindman’s approach, very sensibly, is to let this amazing music speak for itself. Opting for unhurried tempi, she approaches the dance movements with poise, her playing throughout the cycle an object lesson in perfectly balanced voicing and articulation. …In my review of her last Bach recording I hailed Bindman as delivering, ‘Bach playing of the highest order.’ With these model interpretations she does so again here… these intimately recorded and musically convincing performances strike just the right balance between familiarity and revelation. A superb release.”

Andrew Eales
Piano Dao

Eleonor Bindman continues to impress with every new display of her keyboard artistry. … I became aware of her prowess as pianist and arranger in her earlier recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Seasons plus the Waltz and Polonaise from Eugene Onegin (MSR, 2005) and The Brandenburg Duets with fellow pianist Jenny Lin (Grand Piano, 2018). Now, her complete survey of the Bach Partitas, BWV 825-830, proves the clincher: [she] can do anything! … Bach’s keyboard fingerings, difficult to master on the modern piano, hold no mystery for Bindman. It is a measure of this artist’s combined scholarship and keyboard prowess that we can’t tell where the composer leaves off and the performing artist takes over. Really, this is as fine a survey of the Partitas as I’ve ever been privileged to hear. I am pleased to recommend it.”

Phil Muse
Atlanta Audio Club
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