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, ...

Since his last Schubert Club solo recital in 2006, Norway’s Leif Ove Andsnes has emerged as one of the 21st century’s premier pianists. So it’s no surprise that St. Paul’s Ordway Music Theater was ...

Alexewicz is one of four Polish contestants who have qualified to the second stage. During his performance on Thursday, he played all 24 preludes from Opus 28. Reflecting on how his interpretation of ...

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 ...

High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Wanda Landowska with the piano made by Juan Bauza for Frédéric Chopin(Alexander Binder (c.1914)) ...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), whose 200th anniversary it is this year, is the overwhelming favorite composer for the piano. He possessed the most subtle intuitions and fathomed the mysteries of the ...

Following his “consistently impressive” (Gramophone) traversal of Mozart's complete Piano Sonatas for Sony Classical - winner of an Opus Klassik Award - Japanese pianist Mao Fujita presents a ...