To the “Three Bs” of the classical pantheon — Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms — pianist Hélène Grimaud makes a strong case for the addition of a fourth: The composer, pianist, and conductor Ferruccio ...

A pianist who opens a recital with the Bach/Busoni Chaconne is a statement of values, for good or ill A pianist who opens a recital with the Bach/Busoni Chaconne is a statement of values, for good or ...

JS Bach’s employment at the Cöthen court in the late 1710s and early 1720s coincided with one of his most fruitful creative periods. Many of his finest string compositions date from this time, ...

For pianist James Rhodes, the composer’s music expressed feelings that he could not put into words – and kept helping him as his mental health suffered in adulthood When I found a cassette tape of the ...

Traditionally, a chaconne is an instrumental piece in triple time with a continually repeating bass line. Sofya Gulyak, winner of the 2009 Leeds Piano Competition, gives us seven. Best known is Busoni ...

At Gail Niwa’s piano recital Sunday at Orchestra Hall, it was easy to hear why the young Chicago pianist already has racked up so many competition victories, including the gold medal at the 1991 Gina ...

It isn't that he didn't produce, where called for, the big, full sound Busoni had in mind. But from some variations he drew meanings I hadn't sensed before - the quieter parts, the sparkling ...

Find out more about Bach's dazzling piece which remains the pinnacle of the solo violin repertoire. J. S. Bach's Chaconne - more correctly named in Italian, Ciaccona - is the final movement of the ...