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 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 ...

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 ...

Since its invention in 1721, the piano has had an unparalleled influence on the evolution of music. Its polyphonic capability made it an instant hit with classical composers, resulting in it becoming ...

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 ...

New releases from Tyshawn Sorey, Kim Cass, Bill Charlap, Tarbaby, Matthew Shipp, Kris Davis and others are showcasing how a classic format can still feel fresh. By Hank Shteamer Two of the most ...

There's a lot of bad news out there about classical music -- slumping ticket sales in many cities, shrinking output from the major record companies, the so-called "graying" of the audience. Every now ...

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 ...

Sonata for Piano Benno Moiseiwitsch, Piano Nikolay Karlovich Medtner, Composer (4) Fairy Tales, Movements: No. 2 in E minor Benno Moiseiwitsch, Piano Nikolay Karlovich Medtner, Composer (3) Fairy ...