Robert Schumann's three Violin Sonatas are the epitome of Romanticism -- deeply atmospheric works full of song, but haunted by the ghost of Beethoven and the pull between tradition and innovation, not ...

Is it familiarity that makes us love the greater Schumann so much more than the lesser? Perhaps not, suggests Emil Gilels’s gripping account of the rarely heard Piano Pieces Op 32, characteristic ...

Emil Gilels, widely considered one of the greatest concert pianists of the century, died Monday in Moscow at age 68, the Moscow Conservatory of Music announced Tuesday. His British agent, Wilfred ...

Pianist Artur Rubinstein was passing through Odessa one day in 1931 when a piano teacher cornered him and insisted on dragging him off to the local conservatory to hear her pupils. “You know how ...

The title of the disc is almost a misnomer. Yes, all of this music is by Bach. But the organ Prelude and Fugue in D-major is heard in a piano transcription by Ferruccio Busoni and Bach. Busoni is ...

Radu Lupu, one of the world’s great pianists, has died at the age of 76. He studied first in his native Romania with Florica Musicescu and then at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus (who ...