
In the early 1980s the American pianist Yvar Mikhashoff (1941-1993) initiated a commissioning project, asking 127 composers to write tangos for him. He premiered 88
Igor Levit has created quite a stir in the piano world by recording serious, heavy-hitting repertoire for his first two Sony releases. He made a
Frederic Rzewski wrote his monumental variation set based on Sergio Ortega’s Chilean resistance anthem song “El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido” for pianist Ursula Oppens,
Corey Hamm is a professor of piano at the University of British Columbia School of Music. He has made a career-long study of Rzewski’s amazing
Following up his Naxos recording of Frederic Rzewski’s monumental 1975
An increasing number of younger pianists have been taking up Frederic Rzewski’s monumental 1975 set of variations on Sergio Ortega’s Chilean resistance song The People
It’s really good to have a disc of Frederic Rzewski’s instrumental music, even if two of the works recorded here are arrangements (authorized by the
There seems to be no lack of young pianists coming out of the woodwork, all of them hell-bent on playing contemporary music beautifully. Such is