Sony Classical is delighted to release an advance preview track from the eagerly anticipated debut album by the extraordinarily gifted young Japanese pianist, Mao Fujita. Having signed an exclusive ...

I’ve had the privilege of hearing two live performances of Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata in my life—one thirty years ago, and one last Friday night at the Nasher Sculpture Center as part of the ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

One of the musicians I miss most in this current deep freeze is the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos. He always loved eluding the press – when I was commissioned to interview him in Madrid, he almost ...

Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov's orchestral music has left me cold, so it's a relief to report that the piano music on this immaculately recorded disc is consistently interesting and ...

SANTA BARBARA — When the American composer Elliott Carter reached the seemingly ripe old age of 80, I interviewed him about his late style. He wasn’t much interested in either looking back or keeping ...

There have been fortepianists before Ronald Brautigam and Kristian Bezuidenhout upon whose shoulders those two might be said to stand. But none had managed so convincingly to bring the fortepiano into ...

Iowa City, IA – The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature’s MusicIC festival has partnered with Riverside Theatre to create "The Kreutzer Sonata: A Play in Five Tiny Movements," by award-winning ...