Jean-Benoît “JB” Dunckel is one half of the French pop duo Air. Now, the co-creator of the legendary turn-of-the-millennium album...
An unexpected reunion amid political surveillance, pianistic genius, and personal truth. Sviatoslav Richter – a name that inspires awe among...
Piano music offers an inexhaustible treasure trove of expressive possibilities that have developed over the centuries. Two recent recordings by...
Marc-André Hamelin is one of the greatest living adventurers on the piano. No one plays the avant-gardists of yesterday and...
With Piano Book 2, Lang Lang effortlessly removes many of the barriers that people often associate with classical music. Over...
In an art form driven by tempo, virtuosity, and expressiveness, Mal Waldron was a quiet exception. Born in 1925 in...
Africa, Africa, again and again. His father, a follower of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, had already impressed upon him at a...
Erik Satie (1866–1925) was something like the eccentric uncle of the French music scene—the one who, at family gatherings, doesn’t...
As a child, Federico Albanese went to La Scala in Milan every Sunday, played bass in a punk band as...
Bach’s Musical Offering challenges creativity, even with deliberately unfinished inversion and riddle canons. Bach also relies on the musicians’ imagination...