NEW YORK – A gripping performance of Ferruccio Busoni's mammoth Piano Concerto brought the Spring for Music festival to the halfway point Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. It was the New Jersey ...

You don't get to be a star of the music world by pursuing obscure repertoire and lavishing enormous amounts of intelligence and technical bravado on it. If you follow that course, the only thing you ...

It’s always surprising how often Jews cross borders. But this coincidence was just too good not to be documented. In January I was raving to my friend Beate Sirota Gordon about a performance of the ...

There is no shortage of pianists with pristine techniques today. There is even a decent supply of polished pianists who possess the rarer attribute of musicality. But Marc-Andre Hamelin still stands ...

It isn't that he didn't produce, where called for, the big, full sound Busoni had in mind. But from some variations he drew meanings I hadn't sensed before - the quieter parts, the sparkling ...

Ferruccio Busoni is still best known as an arranger of Bach, though his transformations of that master's music are sometimes a million miles removed from the familiar handful of works that feature as ...

Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin (HAM-eh-lin) performs Busoni's arrangement of J.S. Bach's Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, a piece Bach originally wrote for solo violin. This recording ...

Canadian pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin was the only classical musician to play live at the 2001 Grammy Awards Ceremony, a distinction that some of his peers might find dubious and others downright ...

Grammy’s got a new groove. Marc Andre Hamelin, a cool Canadian pianist with fingers that fly and an insatiable taste for the most flamboyantly virtuosic keyboard music of the 19th and 20th centuries, ...