Artists Archive

Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) on 18 April 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at the Central …

Beethoven’s first movement of his sonata Op. 110 opens softly and simply – though stopping on a mini-cadenza in the fourth bar. This is an early warning of the liberties to come, as are the …

Franz Joseph Haydn was born on March 31, 1732, in Rohrau, a small village in Austria. His father Mathias Haydn was a master wheelwright who loved music and often played the harp while his wife …

Soprano Lucia Popp was one amazing singer. Once conductors heard her, she was hired. No competitive tryouts… Her voice was like a heavenly bell; Just listen:

Yitzhak Perlman is celebrated by many as one of the greatest classical violinists of the twentieth century. Overcoming polio and its crippling effects, Perlman was a distinguished musician in his native Israel prior to entering …