Pianist Martin Stadtfeld specializes in Bach in a time when fewer such specialists play a modern piano. As his career has developed, he has extended his repertory forward as far as the Romantic era. In 2003, Stadtfeld was signed to the Sony Classical label, and in 2005, he released a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, a confident move for a young pianist. He has continued to record the music of Bach, but in the 2010s and 2020s, his output has become more diverse, with albums devoted to Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. In 2023, Stadtfeld released the unusual double album Baroque Colours, featuring a large group of short Baroque pieces.