Víkingur Ólafsson had something to prove at the Wigmore Hall. And prove it he did, even if, this time, his Goldberg ...

Two-dimensional and daunting on the printed page, Schoenberg’s atonal music developed depth and character through Uchida’s artful voicing of its singing theme and flickering fantasms. The second piece ...

Still boyish-looking at 54, Andsnes channeled the 22-year-old Edvard Grieg as the Leipzig-trained composer reached for the grandeur of the German Romantic school in his lone sonata for piano. Happily, ...

After the first performance of Sir Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time doubt was expressed about the inclusion of the American Spirituals into the piece. Never before had music associated with an ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and ...

Not once did my attention flag. I also marveled at Beethoven's creative development across the set. Unlike his piano sonatas, symphonies, and quartets, which are spaced more evenly across his career, ...

One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness. Bedridden since the previous Christmas, he was attacked by jaundice, his limbs and ...

At the heart of the story lies a brutal crime of passion. A husband murders his wife, an amateur pianist, who had been enjoying chamber music sessions with a violinist. There was nothing illicit ...

Guest artist Fanya Lin perfoms works by Scriabin, George Crumb, Saint-Saëns, and featuring Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor. A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Fanya is a top prizewinner of the ...

Ethan Brautigam, 13, had a sudden intense headache caused by a ruptured arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a tangle of blood vessels in his right temporal lobe. The rupture caused bleeding in his ...

Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collection of works in the history of music – explore his early sonatas with ‘Classics Unlocked’. Explore Beethoven’s early piano ...

39. Survived by wife Hyon Hui, father Richard (Margaret) Brautigam, mother Joan Brautigam, siblings Laura Brautigam, Brian (Kelly) Brautigam, Mary (Ty) Mettler, many nieces and nephews.