(Courtesy Ena Barton) When she was a teenager, Barton was sent to New York City to study with Claudio Arrau, considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Soon after arriving in the U.S ...
With a casual comment, one of today’s most intelligently expressive pianists brokered a deal with one of the world’s great composers. The resulting half-hour concerto, “After the Fall ...
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The piano, as we know it, dates back hundreds of years.The instrument was key in many seminal compositions, from the classical era to modern times. Pianists have learned to play exquisite pieces ...
an almost commonplace occurrence. But 85 is, by any standards (not least those of a performing artist) a venerable age, one which affords us the opportunity of paying tribute to an undoubtedly great ...
At eighty, the brilliant pianist Claudio Arrau plays passionately on, but successors in the Romantic tradition are hard to find. Is Claudio Arrau the greatest pianist in the world? He turned eighty ...
This is a film that encapsulates the essence of a great pianistic age that married virtuosity and musicianship with the most thrilling aspect of individual showmanship.
Although this, the, the, this period of time was really grim and terrible. I look back with a great deal of gratitude for the experience. John Schaefer: That is pianist Igor Levit talking about the ...
CIM will again hold its acclaimed Young Artist Piano Seminar, July 6-12. The program also will be led again by ...
Popular for her bold outfits and active social media presence, at the same time she is hands-down (sorry…) one of today’s greatest pianists. She can do speed and precision like possibly no ...