pianist Archive

Sonya Bach started playing the piano at the age of three, gave her first public concert at age five, and made her orchestra debut at age nine with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra. She received musical …

One of the movements of Mozart’s most famous piano sonatas carries the title: “Alla Turca”, meaning “in a Turkish style. As an encore at one of her many world-wide recitals, pianist Yuja Wang played an …

Mozart died in 1791, and he left us with a wealth of music: Symphonies, Operas, chamber music, sonatas for many different instruments, and religious works. I have my own set of favorites among them. And …

This is the life story of pianist Vladimir Horowitz. At the very end of his final concert at his native Russia he played the “Traumerei” by Robert Schumann. Watch and listen to as much or …

Several years ago, in 2017, I created my first post about pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau. You can read that first post here: https://myclassicalnotes.com/2017/10/introducing-elena-fischer-dieskau-pianist/ Today I am writing again about Ms. Fischer-Dieskau, because her new CD has …