In addition to writing about classical music for this site and my blog, The Cross-Eyed Pianist, I am a publicist/PR working with a number of musicians and music organisations. I have no formal training for this role, but I spend

In this entry, we’re sharing more of the history behind Tchaikovsky’s heir. To sum up the story so far, in late 1883, Tchaikovsky’s young niece Tatyana came to the composer for help when she became pregnant out of wedlock. Tchaikovsky

For Franco-Hungarian pianist Suzana Bartal, her new album, Grieg & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos, marks an important milestone in her artistic life. Released by Channel Classics, the recording pairs Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with Camille Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G

Filmed in the open-air embrace of the 2025 Usedomer Musikfestival, Camilla Nylund steps forward to reclaim Jean Sibelius from the monumental shadow of his symphonies. She is not merely an interpreter, but a luminous conduit for Sibelius’ soul-stirring introspection. The

In her latest release, British pianist Sarah Beth Briggs celebrates the notion that “small is beautiful”, including two of the greatest sets of miniatures ever written – Robert Schumann’s Waldszenen (Forest Scenes) and Brahms’s 4 Klavierstucke op. 119. These are

In the October 1922 issue of La revue musicale, the musical supplement contained an Hommage to Gabriel Fauré. The 7 piano pieces were all to be written using Fauré’s name, done into pitches. His entire name came out as GABDBEE

Pyotr Tchaikovsky never had children. He was a gay man, and his only marriage fell apart within weeks. His wife would go on to have children with other men that legally he could have claimed as his own, but he

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) is often celebrated for his orchestral masterpieces like the Italian Symphony or the incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. However, Mendelssohn was not only a prodigious composer but also one of the finest pianists of his