I fear that Nhguyen’s Chopin is veering away from the stylistic simplicity characterising his best work in the 2021 competition. The only candidate to open his Stage 1 round with the E flat major ...

In my 2021 Gramophone Chopin Competition blog, I wrote the following about Hyu’s older sibling Hyuk Lee: ‘Everything Lee plays sounds the same. He doesn’t make magic. He doesn’t make waves, nor take ...

It’s not often you hear two virtuoso concert pianists in a single recital. San Jittakarn and Anant Changwaiwit are young and highly-experienced Thai pianists both of remarkable talent and musicianship ...

The Complete Nocturnes, Tom Hicks brings historic insights and artistic intuition to a cherished part of the piano repertoire ...

Filip Lech, Culture.pl’s music journalist and editor, and Iza Smelczyńska, musicologist and improviser, discuss the first round of the Chopin Competition.

One evening of three concertos with orchestra performed by world-class pianists Five world-class artists at the Aventura Arts ...