The 2025 Warsaw jury chairman Garrick Ohlsson turned me on to Kate Liu’s heavenly performance of the Nocturne in B major, Op 62 No 1. What long lines, what concentration, what focus, and all seemingly ...

Certain types of figurations presage the fully formed Chopin soon destined to emerge on the scene and change the course of piano music for ever. Yet if one slipped the Minuetto into an early Schubert ...

This week, Bruce not only had the style of Frederic Chopin in mind. He modeled the Puzzler on a specific piece: the Polonaise, Op. 53, the "Heroic" Polonaise. Pianist Martha Argerich plays it.