The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not ...

Most memorable was the slow movement, when the pianist engaged in a buoyant dance before slipping away for a melancholy reverie. Like Grieg, Tveitt took much of his inspiration from Norwegian folk ...

It took pianist Evgeny Kissin much of the first half of his recital to fully hit his stride. But when he did, with a dynamic, expansive performance of Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 4, the packed ...

Now, an animated feature film adaptation of Shinichi Ishizuka’s manga has made up for that shortfall, featuring the work of world-class jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara. “In jazz, whose key element ...

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