Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

The Finale, one of the oddest movements Chopin penned, is a blur of notes in octaves between the two hands moving in lockstep. Grosvenor played it with surprising clarity, using the soft pedal and ...

The Chinese-American pianist's all-Chopin recital, part of the HKU Muse Piano Laureate Series, was powerful, intense and ...

There’s surely a thick book to be written about the influence of Javanese gamelan on western classical music. Debussy ...