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Late last night the tragic news reached me that the great Chinese pianist Fou Ts'ong has died, aged 86, of Covid-19. This phenomenal art...

...I'm off to Glasgow to give a pre-concert talk about Chopin for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall. Curt...

It's the sort of documentary I didn't think they'd allow any more: a fabulously filmed celebration of a genuinely special arti...

A high old time was had by one and all last night at the Chopin Society 's Christmas fundraiser - a gala recital, dinner and ball at Lon...

Today - the Ides of March - is the anniversary of my sister's death. Claire died on 15 March 2000 of ovarian cancer, aged 45.  I rem...

How do you fill a large hall for 20th-century repertoire? Play Rachmaninov. Composers who lived through these turbulent and violent times bu...

I was once doing a talk and someone asked me whether there was any music I used to love that I had "gone off". The answer was twof...

Last night you may have heard Erica Worth, editor of Pianist Magazine , joining Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Richard Sisson live on BBC R3 for Pian...

Done your homework? Read the story? Good. Now read it again with the following in mind: the Emperor as the dying Chopin. And the nightingale...

First it was a Rachmaninov manuscript in a Co-op bag. Now it's Chopin's piano. His long-lost Pleyel has pitched up, lurking in the C...