I've never understood how some pianists pull it off. After all, the piano is such a welter of machinery: Push a key and before you hear a note, a small lever pushes against an intermediate lever, ...

A British music magazine recently asked 100 leading pianists to nominate the three pianists they regarded as the greatest of the 20th century. The final top 20, which was predictably headed by ...

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Individually and collectively, the Chopin etudes represent a formidable mountain that several famous pianists have refrained from climbing. In his new Grammy-nominated album of the Opp. 10 and 25, ...

An intimate portrait of the legendary pianist Murray Perahia The documentary observes Perahia at work on the interpretation of some pieces by Chopin and Schumann It shows him as conductor of the ...

The musical event was Murray Perahia playing piano music by Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin at Carnegie Hall on Friday night. The news lay in Mr. Perahia's return to American concert life after an ...

Few pianists can match Perahia's lucid clarity and warm, rippling sound. Hear him play Chopin and Bach, and discuss their music with Performance... Murray Perahia: Bonding With Bach And Chopin Murray ...

The Chopin anniversary year of 2010 understandably saw a maelstrom of Chopin recordings, making selection a tricky and subjective issue. Yet Sony’s five-disc reissue of Murray Perahia’s discs spanning ...

June 8, 2010 • Pianist Murray Perahia joins the celebration of Schumann’s 200th with a discussion Kinderszenen, the composer’s imaginative depiction of childhood. With Performance Today’s Fred Child, ...

Murray Perahia and Maurizio Pollini brought complexity to their recitals at Carnegie Hall. These were no nostalgia acts — the here and now was a joy. By James R. Oestreich Mr. Perahia, performing at ...