extraordinary exhibit, “Matisse as Printmaker,” which opens Sunday. Among the 150 or so prints, all of them worth a long look, are two portraits of Alfred Cortot, the Franco-Swiss pianist with an ...

Fifty years ago — June 15, 1962 — Alfred Cortot died, leaving behind a benchmark for pianistic artistry. Say what you will about his dropped or sloppy notes, the guy could play. And he could make a ...

I don’t play accurately—anyone can play accurately—but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. And yet it can hardly be ...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The tensions in France following the second World War between those who had supported the Vichy collaborationist regime and those opposed to it flowed into all aspects of life, ...

There can be little to be said at this time of day about Cortot’s playing of the twenty-four Preludes. His complete recording of them seven years ago has a place in gramophone history; the ...

In Paris, about 20 years ago, three good friends recorded Schubert and Beethoven trios. Their performances are still definitive in chamber music. Pianist Alfred Cortot and Violinist Jacques Thibaud ...

Legendary pianist Alfred Cortot was also a fine arranger. Hear He Yue play some of Cortot's most famous pieces. The soloist on this exhilarating recording is He Yue – a Chinese pianist who’s rapidly ...

After five volumes of Cortot’s Chopin, Naxos continues with a miscellany dating from 1929 to 1937 of an incomparable glory. Made long before today’s scissors-and-paste, splicing-and-slicing ...

69.5 x 62.5 cm. (27 ½ x 24 5/8 in.) ...