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From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

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Béla Bartók was a superb pianist and his first and last compositions in life were both for his instrument: a waltz he wrote at age 9, and his Piano Concerto No. 3 as he was dying in New York City as a ...

The adaptable Keith Jarrett is on record questioning classical players’ concept of pulse. “Okay, there are a few exceptions,” he once said, “but everything is usually subordinated to phrasing.” In ...

Isabelle Faust, as she explains in her excellent booklet notes accompanying this CD, has a particular penchant for the violin music of Bartók, fostered by her studies with a violinist who knew the ...