Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

The question of when to applaud in a classical music performance can be a source of anxiety for first-time visitors to a concert hall, but the matter can also be a source of levity. Such would at ...

But the theme, 20 short variations and coda bulge with so much rhythmic and coloristic appeal that it's hard to imagine the music seemed so forbidding at its premiere. Ax gave Copland's explosion of ...

What makes Bach's Goldberg Variations tick? Pianist Jeremy Denk has a few ideas. From the comfort of his living room piano, he reveals how Bach's musical DNA — a simple strand of bass notes — is ...

For years, critics considered Glenn Gould's interpretation of "The Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach to be the gold standard. Now, there's a new contender. With Serena Altschul, we take ...

The pianist’s clarity and dexterity brings humour and insights to Beethoven’s contradictory colossus of a work It has taken until now for Mitsuko Uchida to lay down a recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli ...

In the decades since Glenn Gould’s revolutionary 1955 recording, Bach’s Goldberg Variations have gone from an esoteric object of specialist interest to a ubiquitous rite of passage. Pianists today ...