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 ...

Michael McManus invites 10 of today’s leading pianists to discuss 10 great examples of the Piano Concerto The great Polish composer Witold Lutosławski once said ...

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 ...

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 ...

(19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movements: No. 2 in C sharp minor Grigory Ginsburg, Piano Franz Liszt, Composer (19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movements: No. 6 in D flat Franz Liszt, Composer Grigory Ginsburg, ...

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 ...

He was not just a gifted player; he was a visionary, undone not by lack of talent but by the weight of his mind. In the mid-1970s, a 16-year-old kid walked into the recording studio where Roberta ...