"Compared with [J. S. Bach’s] six sonatas for violin without accompaniment, these violoncello solos are light and unpretending. Nevertheless, they are interesting, because they are Bach’s. The first ...

Bach in the City, Chicago's newest Baroque period-instrument organization, will present 'Bach's Musical World,' at Allen ...

The Finale, one of the oddest movements Chopin penned, is a blur of notes in octaves between the two hands moving in lockstep. Grosvenor played it with surprising clarity, using the soft pedal and ...

There’s surely a thick book to be written about the influence of Javanese gamelan on western classical music. Debussy ...

Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany on Monday in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music". The two solo organ works, ...

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Nature and mysticism... What was the inspiration for the Busoni Piano Concerto? In a letter to his wife sent in 1902, Busoni includes a sketch to illustrate the Piano Concerto pictorially. It features ...

Beethoven completed five piano concertos in under 20 years, earning considerable amounts of money by performing them himself in concert. Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has performed the ...

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 ...

On March 3, pianist Fang Yan performed at the Mariinsky Theatre under the baton of conductor Valery Gergiev. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] On March 3, pianist Fang Yan performed at the ...