Balakirev's two piano concertos have very different histories. The first, written comparatively swiftly, dates from 1856. Its successor, however, occupied him on and off from 1860, but was still ...

When Liszt first visited Russia in 1842, Vladimir Stasov, the great St Petersburg cultural panjandrum and self-appointed arbiter of taste, wrote that “we had never in our lives heard anything like ...

The young Jeneba Kanneh-Mason had an astonishing artistry beyond her years, as this video from the early 2010s confirms. Immense talent, poetry, and an artistry that just lets the music flow.

Piano Sonata No 2 Vincenzo Maltempo, Piano Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 2 Vincenzo Maltempo, Piano Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, Composer Sonata for Piano No 2 ...

Arguably, no one knows the piano works of Mily Balakirev better than Nicholas Walker. Four years ago, he completed his six album set of recordings of the complete piano works – this in addition to his ...