‘There is only one Beethoven ... piano lessons to the wealthy widow of a court councillor. Among the influential admirers he met at this time was Count Ferdinand Waldstein, later immortalised by the ...

Víkingur Ólafsson had something to prove at the Wigmore Hall. And prove it he did, even if, this time, his Goldberg ...

Onstage two nights ago were Julia Fischer, the German violinist, and Jan Lisiecki, the Canadian pianist—Polish-Canadian ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and ...

the piano. Even though Beethoven composed nine astonishing Symphonies, sonatas, and concertos for violin, string quartets, and choral works it is perhaps his piano music where we meet face to face ...

Not once did my attention flag. I also marveled at Beethoven's creative development across the set. Unlike his piano sonatas, symphonies, and quartets, which are spaced more evenly across his career, ...

On the evidence here, he’s clearly a remarkable talent and Levit is clearly proud of his protégé, sharing a programme where each performed a Prokofiev piano sonata before joining forces for ...

Igor Levit is a master of the unorthodox marathon, one he was happy to share last night with 24-year-old Austrian Lukas ...

Unearthing everyday pianists from all over Australia through the celebration of the street piano, regular Australians are invited to play the piano at busy locations around the country and given the ...

Still boyish-looking at 54, Andsnes channeled the 22-year-old Edvard Grieg as the Leipzig-trained composer reached for the grandeur of the German Romantic school in his lone sonata for piano. Happily, ...

Orkis’s fingers were in perpetual, pearly motion in the Allegretto, with Mutter first commenting drily, then joining in the ...