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The Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation will close its 2024-25 concert season with Pasquale Iannone, from Italy and ...
Anne-Sophie Mutter (on violin) and Lambert Orkis (on piano) gave a recital in Foellinger Great Hall seventeen years after her ...
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, making her New York Philharmonic debut this week, has become one of music’s quirkiest stars by breathing new life into standards.
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Universally recognised as one of the finest pianists of our time, Mr Pletnev will present a solo recital, delighting fans with a curated selection of piano sonatas by Beethoven, and shorter ...
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, ...
But I absolutely, positively cannot sight-read music, and I definitely can’t play Beethoven sonatas. And I want to—desperately. So I thought I’d take a stab at learning piano for real.
Composer and double Oscar winner Hans Zimmer has said playing piano makes him feel like a failure. The German music producer told the BBC: "I'm not a great player, I’m a composer" ahead of the ...
“I had been thinking of filling in the gaps in Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas—there were a few that I had never played—and that inspired me to begin the process of playing through all of them and ...
Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collection of works in the history of music – explore his early sonatas with ‘Classics Unlocked’. Explore Beethoven’s early piano ...