Yuja Wang is indisputably one of the world’s best pianists. Her musicianship pairs an ironclad technique with a searing passion. Her fashion sense is famous, too. Nobody on the concert…

Jane Stirling – Frédéric Chopin’s student, patroness, caretaker, manager, and legacy-builder – has always lived in the shadows of her piano teacher. And yet she was an integral part of Chopin’s…

When people think about classical music, they usually think about Ludwig van Beethoven. He is nearly synonymous with the entire music period, and he is the gold standard to which…

Enjoy this beautiful musical moment with the little pianist Elisey Mysin (8 years old) in his beautiful interpretation of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D Major. I hope you appreciate the…

Pianist and 2022 Advocate for the Arts Awards Benefit honoree Norman Malone For more than three decades, Norman Malone distinguished himself as an educator in the Chicago Public Schools, conducting…

After huge success in 1836 with the premiere of St Paul, Mendelssohn contemplated writing further large-scale choral works based on biblical themes. When did Mendelssohn compose Elijah?  Mendelssohn was particularly drawn to…

Bach’s works for solo violin and cello are the Shakespearean monologues of the string world: The indefinable balance of technical mastery and interpretive insight they require is the touchstone of a…

Ten of our favourite pieces of classical music for the cello The cello is a gorgeous stringed instrument, its rich, low tone ideally suited to some of classical music’s most…

In today’s episode of PianoTV, we are going to talk about Johann Sebastian Bach, the legend. Bach is one of my all-time favorite musicians, and there is so much to…

Ludwig van Beethoven is perhaps the most famous and celebrated classical composer of all time (the New York Times puts him second, behind Bach). But Beethoven’s grim life was depressing, lonely, and difficult.…