Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Byron Janis, the celebrated classical pianist who studied with Vladimir Horowitz, recorded previously unknown Chopin waltzes from ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, silences an ...

THE BOTTOM LINE: An epic set recalls the legendary pianist in his peak years. Even the sturdiest reputations have a way of changing after the death of an artist. At the turn of the century Paderewski ...

When revered pianist Alfred Brendel strolls on stage, unhurriedly and always slightly bent forward, his age makes itself felt, as does his idiosyncrasy. Scoffers might compare him to the hunchback of ...

Michel Petrucciani: diminuitive French pianist, glass bones disease= no calcium, given toy piano and smashes it, demanding real piano. At the end he was up there with Keith Jarrett or anybody else at ...

The idea of late style in creative works has long fascinated critics. Commentators have noted that for many artists and thinkers — from Beethoven to Einstein — the most groundbreaking, innovative, and ...

Once upon a time, piano music was the social media of its day. The 19th and early 20th Centuries were the heyday of the piano. It was the primary entertainment for the evening in most middle-class ...

MIDDLEBURY Hearing a great pianist play Liszt can be very exciting, but not to the degree of experiencing a great musician performing Beethoven. Saturday s Middlebury College Performing Arts Series ...

(4) Ballades, Movements: No. 2 in F, Op. 38 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Andrei Gavrilov, Piano (6) Moments musicaux, Movements: Andante cantabile, B minor Sergey ...