This week sees new albums from Anna Lapwood, the LPO with Edward Gardner, the BBC SSO and Alpesh Chauhan, plus previously ...

Jonas Aumiller opened his recital with the best Bach-Busoni D major Organ Prelude and Fugue, BWV532, I’ve heard in concert since the salad days of Marc-André Hamelin and Sergio Fiorentino' ...

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

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 ...

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

The Cliburn launches its brand-new partnership with Apple Music Classical and Apple-owned record label Platoon.

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 ...

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 On one of 2022’s performance-free days, I wrote ...

The recording can be found on Lanyi’s upcoming album ‘Organ Reflections: Mozart, Franck & Reger’ ...

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