Review: Suk: Piano Music (Jonathan Plowright)
Plowright gives a Czech composer a fair Suk of the sauce bottle.
September 24, 2018
Review: Four Strings Around the World (Irina Muresanu)
Have violin, will travel is Muresanu’s musical mantra.
September 24, 2018
Review: Bach: Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Thomas Bowes)
Emotionally gruelling traversal as Bowes scales musical Everest.
September 24, 2018
Review: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Volume 7 (Angela Hewitt)
Hewitt’s latest batch of Beethoven is as tasty as ever.
September 18, 2018
Review: Bach: Complete Keyboard Works Vol 1 (Benjamin Alard)
Benjamin Alard embarks on a project of a lifetime.
September 18, 2018
Sarah Grunstein on the pursuit of musical questions
The New York-based Australian pianist tells us how after the September 11 attacks, Bach's Goldberg Variations were the only thing that made sense.
September 17, 2018
Oliver She wins 2018 Australian National Piano Award
The 27-year-old from Brisbane has taken home the $27,000 First Prize.
September 10, 2018
For Benjamin Grosvenor, a musical career seemed inevitable
Hurtling to fame after winning the BBC Young Musician Competition at 10, the English pianist talks about giving up on music, crafting a program after Rubinstein and his love of Ravel.
September 7, 2018
Review: Four Worlds (Moye Chen)
With Moye Chen’s ‘worlds’, it’s a case of three out of four ain’t bad.
August 29, 2018
Review: Solo (Emmanuel Pahud)
Pahud flies solo with works old and new, but Solo fails to land.
August 29, 2018
Review: Debussy: Préludes Book II, La Mer (Alexander Melnikov)
Melnikov’s Érard makes for impressive Debussy, period.
August 29, 2018
Review: Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos 32, 40, 49, 50 (Paul Lewis)
For Paul Lewis, Papa Haydn turns ought to be no laughing matter.
August 29, 2018
Love Bach? Now Yo-Yo Ma can be yours to command
The great cellist's words of wisdom are the latest add-on to Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant.
August 23, 2018