The piano repertoire of the romantic era walks a fine line between virtuosic display and vulgar excess. In a recital devoted to Chopin and Liszt, pianist Louis Lortie all but obliterated that line, ...
When a recital programme includes two fiendishly demanding piano sonatas, you can expect the soloist to both have the technical chops and the musical stamina to pull it off. In a refreshingly unshowy, ...
Paris-born Canadian pianist Bruce Liu thrilled and enchanted in a cracking recital for the 51st Hong Kong’s Arts Festival, delivering inspired Chopin playing, an alluring and impressionistic Ravel ...
Els Biesemans's newest CD brings multiple pleasures. There are the joys of hearing Liszt's keyboard transcriptions of 12 of the 24 songs of Schubert's Winterreise. There are the songs by Mendelssohn ...
In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...
English pianist Benjamin Grovesnor was 11 when he won the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2004, and this year became the youngest ever soloist in the opening ...
On Monday, Google’s homepage ran a picture to celebrate the 360th birthday of Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the piano and keeper of instruments for the Medicis in Florence. The instrument ...
Top-notch pianists are thick on the ground every summer at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival. It takes place at New York City's Mannes College of Music. We drop in to hear Marc-Andre ...
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