The Romantic era threw up some of the most incredibly complex, fiddly and beautiful piano music, written by a bunch of emotionally tortured show-offs. But which virtuosos, composers and pieces are the ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Pianist Roger McVey knows the language of music. “When you’re playing the piano, or ...

We explore the musical canon of one of the Romantic period’s most unsung composers. Working in a field overwhelmingly dominated by men, the 19th-century musician is quoted as saying sometime in her ...

The classical music repertoire contains hundreds of works for piano and orchestra, and yet we tend to hear only a tiny fraction of them in concert halls today: the familiar piano concertos by Brahms, ...