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.
The New York Times has extolled Denk's "profound affinity with Bach" as a performer, and the Philadelphia Inquirer has called his Bach recitals "mesmerizing."