Adrian Spence does not pussyfoot around when talking about the relevance of Beethoven. The founder and artistic director of ...

He is the sovereign master of his piano; he knows all its resources; he makes it speak, moan, cry, and roar under fingers of steel,’ wrote one critic at the time.

For the first piece that he presented at the renovated and reopened Powell Hall, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin chose a composer he knows well and loves: Leonard ...

Dr. Sandor Szabo. Photo courtesy of the artist. Great Barrington — The Szabo Chamber Music Society will open its 2025–26 season with a concert featuring violinist Susan Heerema and pianist Sandor ...

We spent a couple of hours at Verb Ballets’ studio recently, watching rehearsals of Adam Hougland’s K281, a dance set to Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 3, K281, which will be part of Verb’ upcoming ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur Bliss, but there hasn’t been too much activity of note to mark the occasion. The RPO and Peter Donohoe played his Piano Concerto in London ...

His was perhaps the most famous wrinkled brow in classical music, framing the bespectacled eyes of a pianist who penetrated to the very heart of the Austro-Germanic tradition like few others have ever ...

Alfred Brendel, a Czech-born, Austrian-raised pianist celebrated around the world for the gravity and thoughtfulness he brought to his performances, died June 17 at his home in London. He was 94. His ...

Pianist Won Sook Hur will perform six of Mozart’s piano sonatas in her upcoming recital in Seoul, scheduled for June 26. According to the recital's organizer, OPUS, the concert, titled “Mozart: ...

This story is being updated daily through June 1 with reviews of the semifinal round. FORT WORTH — The first two rounds of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ended Sunday, May 25, with ...

In 1993 an appealing idea took new parents by storm. Playing classical music to babies would make them smarter, according to a paper published in the journal Nature. The study showed that a few dozen ...

Fujita’s affinity for Mozart is hardly news. It was with Mozart’s K491 that in 2017 he won the Concours International de Clara Haskil, and recently he performed Mozart’s complete piano sonatas at ...