I admired this new release by the brilliant young pianist Igor Levit even before I’d heard a note of it, if only because of the overdue gesture of placing the greatest keyboard variation set of the ...

Only Love Beauty [after Mahler]; Variation XXXII [after Beethoven, Diabelli Variations]; Variation XXXIII [after Beethoven, Diabelli Variations]; Variation 10 for Fortepiano and Viola da Gamba Quartet ...

One of the most attractive things about pianist and composer Uri Caine is his creative unpredictability. There are no musical genres he fears and, moreover, fears to combine in the post-provocative ...

Nearly two years ago, New York-based Pam Tanowitz faced a seemingly risky proposition — to choreograph to Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” The masterpiece, written in 1741, remains one ...

Pianist Glenn Gould popularized Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations with his landmark 1955 recording. Might Moisés Kaufman’s Tony-nominated play “33 Variations” — running this month at the Ahmanson Theatre ...

The word legend is bandied about a bit too much these days—suggested for any musician who lasts a decade and releases three good albums, bestowed on any artist who headlines a festival and plays for ...

Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

A group of instrument movers’ efforts to carry a Canadian virtuoso pianist’s $194,000 piano out of a recording studio in Berlin ended in a grand fail. Angela Hewitt, one of the world’s leading ...