In a new column for International Piano, the pianist, writer and musicologist Kenneth Hamilton reflects on a throwaway remark from a fellow pianist and writer, the late Charles Rosen, and asks:...
In London to collect his seventh Gramophone Award, Krystian Zimerman gives a rare interview to Jessica Duchen, and talks about recording Szymanowski, the challenges of touring and the need for good...
Ingrid Fliter talks about recordings that evoke special memories, with music that transports her to another dimension
Enjoy this year's Gurwitz International Piano Competition live from San Antonio
Mark Ainley offers an overview of the recorded legacy of one of the greatest of all 20th‑century pianists, Josef Hofmann, and suggests some essential listening
Javier Perianes has recorded one of the pinnacles of Spanish piano music, Granados’s Goyescas. He talks to Jessica Duchen about playing this evocative and demanding music and following...
Join us at Kings Place in London for a special Hamamatsu International Piano Competition Showcase
Lukas Geniušas has made the first recording of the unpublished original version of Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No 1. He talks to Jeremy Nicholas about exploring this absorbing work
Burkard Schliessmann introduces his new album, ‘Live & Encores’ – with music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schumann – and looks ahead to an all-Schumann album that will follow next year
David Dolan talks readers through a range of methods that can be geared towards achieving an appropriate character of improvisation and spontaneous freedom in Mozart’s Fantasy in D minor, K397
Daniel-Ben Pienaar introduces his recorded cycle of 48 Haydn piano sonatas, which casts fresh light on the composer’s musical style and personality
Charles Timbrell surveys the early 20th-century pianists who are known to have worked closely with Debussy and performed the composer’s music in his presence
Mark Ainley celebrates the small but priceless recorded legacy of the great pianist
Charivari looks ahead to the centenary of the death of the composer Moritz Moszkowski, and encourages pianists and others to take up the cause of this often-marginalised figure
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