World-renowned pianist Dmitri Alexeev has played in some of the finest concert venues in the world, from Berlin to Paris to New York. He’s also worked with orchestras ranging from Royal Concertgebouw ...

It's true that he doesn't adapt the sound to the individual composer. While Elisabeth Leonskaja, fellow disciple in the Russian school of orchestral pianism, can lighten up in the early romantic ...

Pianist Dmitri Alexeev understands that there is a natural discordance between performers and composers. “It’s practically impossible to be better musicians than Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

Alexeev’s Schumann was revelatory. His default mode is unpedalled clarity, a weight and focus never overdone, but the range of colours in Waldszenen conjured so many images, even if not necessarily ...

Vitaly Pisarenko, Thomas Kelly, Jun Lin Wu and Dmitri Alexeev in the Bizet encore ...

Do you like Rachmaninoff? If so, whom do you like in the preludes and other such pieces? You could do far worse than Dmitri Alexeev, the Russian pianist born in 1947. He made a famous two-CD set in ...

The Newport Music Festival has bragging rights for what must be among the most opulent, extravagant concert venues in the country. We're inside The Breakers — the enormous, lavish mansion built in ...