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 ...

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

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We take a look at the arias, movements, songs and dances whose fame has outshone the larger works in which they first ...

To grow up in Bandra is to hear music as routinely as conversation. It is the rare home that does not hum with soaring melody, riff and song. Budding musicians here have always revelled in a tradition ...

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Stephen Aron is a world-renowned classical guitarist who founded Oberlin’s Classical Guitar program in 1992. He is a groundbreaking figure in the world of classical guitar recordings, publishing the ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Eric Lu won the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition (ph) on Tuesday in Warsaw, Poland. It's the first time an American has taken top honors at the competition since ...

American pianist Eric Lu has been crowned the winner of the 19th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in the early hours of Tuesday, October 21. The decision came after hours of ...