Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ottorino Respighi, and Zoltan Kodaly were all European composers who were born within a decade of each other and who wrote immensely tuneful music well into the 20th century.

I stopped paying attention to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual awards presentation on TV years ago. But I might watch tomorrow night — if only because I’m curious to find out if ...

The movie “Shine” has created a phenomenon that suggests a new low in standards for classical music — something to which I am no doubt contributing by writing about the film for the second time in two ...

Music by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Chopin et al., plus original score by David Hirschfelder, performed by David Helfgott and others Philips I haven’t seen the movie “Shine” yet, but if it’s as good as its ...

There is a moment in the 1996 film “Shine” (a dramatization of the life of the pianist David Helfgott) when a piano teacher describes Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto as a “mountain.” While the ...

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 has enough of a popular reputation that you can sell tickets with it. Long known to musicians as one of the most difficult to play (for pianists) it became widely ...

The Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky kept the audience and, for that matter, the Pacific Symphony, on the edge of their seats Thursday night in Segerstrom Concert Hall, where he performed Rachmaninoff ...

For over 25 years, beginning with George Gershwin Alone, Hershey Felder has been embodying the lives and art of famous composers onstage, including Chopin, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. And he’s always ...

Terror is likely the first response that comes to mind when pianists face Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. Amid some of the Russian composer's typically ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Surely no virtuoso neatly divides public opinion quite like the pianist David Helfgott. Is he an eccentric genius, up there with the ...