Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Program: Where did the name of Bach’s "Air on a G String" come from?

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It’s funny how certain pieces of classical music attract nicknames — soubriquets that maybe help them ...
Metro

Here’s Bach’s Air On The G String – being played on an actual G-String

When composer Johann Sebastian Bach composed his classic Air On A G String he probably never imagined it would ever be played like this. Because YouTube musician Andrew Huang has taken the title of ...
NPR

Music for Marching Down the Aisle

For the procession down the aisle: "Air on the G String," Bach: contemplative, passionate. "Allegro" from "The Water Music," Handel: jaunty, uplifting ditty. "Andante" from String Quartet in A Minor, ...
The Independent

The G-string man

Jacques Loussier is a man who defies category. He has accompanied Charles Aznavour and played with Romanian gypsy orchestras in Paris, recorded a mass with the great English counter-tenor James Bowman ...