In 2009, Chinese pianist Zhang Haochen and Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii shared the Gold Medal at the 13th edition of the famous Van Cliburn Competition. With the Silver Medal going to South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son, it started what

What are the best-selling classical music recordings of all time? It’s hard to say. The Billboard charts didn’t start reliably measuring the number of albums sold until the 1950s, and people’s varying definitions of what “classical music” means in an

French pianist Michel Dalberto, winner of the Clara Haskil Prize and the First Prize in the Leeds International Piano Competition, selected the music of Franz Schubert for his first commercial recording. His recording of two piano sonatas by Franz Schubert

In the history of classical music, few relationships began as intensely – or as tumultuously – as the whirlwind courtship between Gustav Mahler and Alma Schindler. Their meeting in November 1901 at a Vienna salon brought together two formidable artistic

“We live in a society that wants stars. We (the pianists) are not the stars.” – pianist Leon Fleisher (1928-2020) In classical music, the idea that “the music is the star” holds that the composition itself – not the performer

The variation form was a great playground for a composer. S/he could show imagination, skill, technical ability, and every clever idea and pose it all as making (sometimes) better music than the original composer. In her debut album, pianist Yutian

June is a genuinely remarkable month in classical music history. It’s the birth month of Elgar, Grieg, Stravinsky, and Schumann. It saw the premieres of Peter Grimes, The Firebird, and the Enigma Variations. And it’s the month that claimed Bizet,

‘Singing is a Lifetime Lesson’ Baritone Konstantin Krimmel is a self-confessed outdoorsman, equally at home on the concert stage as hiking in the woods. Growing up in Ulm, in southern Germany, his early promise as a singer was accompanied by