Beethoven boxset, BSO concertos, Curtis lectures, New York recitals, NEC masterclasses, Marlboro Festivals—Jonathan Biss is a pianist whose performances I made sure to catch during my student years on the US East Coast. His online course exploring Beethoven’s sonatas attracted

More than 62 million people have watched David Hicken’s music on YouTube, yet the composer behind those numbers works from a relatively quiet corner of northern Thailand. An English composer, organist, and pianist, Hicken has built an international audience from

We had another chat with audio engineer Lani Spahr the other day. We spoke with him last year about his work on the century-old recordings made by Siegfried Wagner. Now we’re talking to him about the Elgar series, Elgar from

The long-standing series on SOMM Recordings of the live performances by English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham (1879–1961) has been a revelation, showing what a consummate musician can do with a great orchestra. Until these SOMM recordings came out, we were

Contemporary Uzbek Music for Clarinet and Piano does exactly what it says on the tin: a first-of-its-kind offering that blends traditional Uzbek music with the Western classical style. It was recorded as part of Uzbek-born, US-based clarinettist Sayyod Mirzomurodov’s doctoral

Italian pianist Silvia Carlin’s debut solo album, Pensées fugitives, brings together collections of miniatures by Sergei Prokofiev, Clara Schumann, Samuil Maykapar, and Moritz Moszkowski, united by the idea of “fleeting thoughts.” For Carlin, the program is more than a carefully

Praised for “extraordinary sensibility and passionate intensity”, London-based pianist Zeju Fan recently presented a sold-out debut recital at St John’s Smith Square in London during an intense summer heatwave, featuring an ambitious and demanding repertoire, including Beethoven‘s Waldstein Sonata, Berg’s

Canadian pianist Kevin Chen gained international recognition after winning first prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest in 2021, followed by first prize at the Concours de Genève in 2022. A victory at the Arthur Rubinstein International