Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island. Now, Mikhail ...

Surely there were some proud Norwegian Americans in the crowd, prepared to celebrate the music of Andsnes’ homeland with sonatas by composers of the 19th century (Edvard Grieg) and the 20th (the ...

Like others, I tend to repeat stories, but I figure it’s okay if they’re good ones. Let me quote a story I told in a September 2019 review: In the summer of 2012, I was driving from Ann Arbor, ...

Pianist Rafal Blechacz's victory at the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (the first Polish performer to take the prize in 30 years) aroused plenty of interest in this young virtuoso.

This is one of Chopin's most mournful works has lived long in the memory thanks to Jack Nicholson, or all people. When you think of Chopin, you don't necessarily think of incurable sadness and ...

Peter Collins, a New Orleans-born pianist and music professor at Missouri State University, will present a free concert on Sunday afternoon featuring selected works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude ...

Chopin is never far from the center of the piano world, but he seems to be picking up some unusually eloquent champions lately. To a list that includes the Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter, who makes ...

Now, I was never much of a Barry Manilow fan, but I have to say he melted my heart — along with everybody else’s there that night — at the Staples Center in L.A. on Valentine’s Day a few years back.

It is no coincidence that these two Chopin recitals arrive on each other’s heels. The prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition, held every five years, has just crowned its latest winner in ...