Billboard

Is Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ The First No. 1 Piano-And-Vocal-Only Ballad?

It's almost unheard of for pop radio to play a song as sparsely-produced as the Hot 100's current leader. But, just how rare is it? By Gary Trust Hello Gary! I was amazed (and very, very happy) that ...
Billboard

A History Of Hit Piano Ballads On The Hot 100

Bruno Mars' new Hot 100 leader 'When I Was Your Man' joins Adele's 2011 smash 'Someone Like You' as the only piano-and-vocal-exclusive No. 1s in the chart's 54-year history. By Gary Trust Amid a boom ...
The Guardian

Grieg: Piano Concerto; Ballade in G minor; Piano Sonata, etc

This is a puzzling set. In 1903 in Paris Edvard Grieg made a set of wax-cylinder recordings of his own piano music – some of the Lyric Pieces, two movements of his E minor sonata – which remain ...
The Guardian

Nenov: Piano Concerto; Ballade No 2 CD review – revelatory Bulgarian modernism

Communism did for Bulgarian composer, pianist and architect Dimitar Nenov (1901-1953). From 1944, this educated, well-travelled polymath with a dangerously aristocratic lineage was effectively ...
Classic FM

That jarring iPhone alarm tone has been turned into a sweeping piano fantasia

Transforming an iPhone alarm into a soothing piano ballad... How many people actually like waking up to the sound of their alarm? Whether you have the most beautiful piece of music set to start you on ...