The International Chopin Piano competition is known for its incredible power to turn unknown prodigies ... Maurizio Pollini is an icon today and his recordings of Chopin and Schumann are widely ...

In a world full of large and small tensions, how can listening to or playing Chopin's music restore our emotional agency?

A new study has found that high blood pressure can reduce people’s sensitivity to classical music. Research investigating the ...

This week – Tippett's New Year, Boulez's Second Piano Sonata, Chopin's Preludes, Bach's The Art of Fugue and Mahler's Symphony No 5 Thanks for exploring the Gramophone website. Sign up for a free ...

Argerich (pronounced AR-guh-reech), who grew up in Argentina but has lived for decades in Geneva, has a reputation for mysticism. She can summon immense power and velocity in Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky ...

From concertos and sonatas, to nocturnes and trios, classical music would simply not be the same without the humble piano. To celebrate World Piano Day ... By the time Romantic composers like Chopin ...

Three piano quartets survive, two of which are recorded here by pianist Krystian Zimerman alongside Maria Nowak (violin), Katarzyna Budnik (viola) and Yuya Okamoto (cello), colleagues with whom he has ...

Padkovskyi and Martins played as though they'd been a duet for a lifetime, seamlessly intertwining the lilting dash of ...