The Hungarian pianist András Schiff has had a significant role in the Walt Disney Concert Hall decade. During the hall’s first season he brought refined insight to Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. In ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two imposing sets of variations — Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Beethoven’s Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz ...

“And then I just thought, why not put the two together?” This casual account of decision making, an explanation without an explanation, was offered by pianist András Schiff during a recent ...

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 three-hour Celebrity Series program András Schiff offered at Jordan Hall Friday evening went from the sublime to the ridiculous and back to the sublime. His theme was variations, as he opened with ...

Pianist Glenn Gould popularized Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations with his landmark 1955 recording. Might Moisés Kaufman’s Tony-nominated play “33 Variations” — running this month at the Ahmanson Theatre ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .

MacGregor, well known in China for her recent collaboration with Jin Xing, was playing Bach, and Lewis, Beethoven. Bach's keyboard oeuvre is sometimes called the Old Testament of classical music and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music brought a critic and a guest together, in a conversation about Bach, Beethoven, chess and politics. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Music, we all ...