"First he asked me to play Schnittke or Shostakovich," Brakhman wrote in an e-mail from Brazil. "But later I thought, why could I not play both? After the concerti were confirmed, I decided to make ...

Pianist Dmitry Paperno did not have an easy life. He launched his career in a Soviet system that crushed spirits, sanctioned anti-Semitism and demeaned artists of his considerable stature (he was a ...

Balakirev's two piano concertos have very different histories. The first, written comparatively swiftly, dates from 1856. Its successor, however, occupied him on and off from 1860, but was still ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Daniil Trifonov, a 21-year-old Russian piano prodigy who won medals at three of the world’s most prestigious international music competitions, will make his debut at Saratoga ...

A concert in Moscow by Russian pianist, Alexei Lubimov, and Russian soprano, Yana Ivanilova, was broken up by police last night. The performance, titled ‘Songs against the times’, featured works by ...