Suffice it to say that Sham’s Scriabin Sonata No 10 was more structural than sexy, with the thematic and decorative components delineated in multi-dimensional perspective, and the long chains of ...

A rest day in the competition gives Jed Distler time to reflect on Van Cliburn – American icon, cultural ambassador, and ...

Not since Alfred Cortot and, more recently, Francesca Libetta have I heard Saint-Säens served up with such boundless ...

The recording can be found on Herlin’s upcoming album ‘Dialogue: Debussy & Schumann’ ...

This year's competitors have a rest day, so Jed Distler looks back 20 years to The Cliburn medallists of 2005: Sa Chen, Joyce Yang and Alexander Kobrin ...

Today sees the release of albums of Purcell from Helen Charlston, Mendelssohn from Lahav Shani and CPE Bach from Ryo Terakado ...

Not one note fell under the table, not one phrase emerged without meaning'. Jed Distler finds at least one marvellous set in today's Cliburn Competition Preliminaries ...

Time stood still as Johnson floated the delicate melodic threads of Shostakovich’s A major Prelude, No 7, which melted right into the gently interweaving counterpoint of Brahms’s Op 76 No 4. By ...

Musically, the production is a triumph on all counts. The lead singers are a testament to the German Fest system: a world-class cast drawn almost entirely from salaried employees of the company Ian ...

The freedom and sheer fun that Chaeyoung Park conveyed in Brahms’s Paganini Variations, Book 2, almost made me forget about her effortless technical mastery' ...

The recital featured rare songs by Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Gounod and Viardot ...