Linton Stephens presents an afternoon of exceptional music-making, featuring a live concert from Wigmore Hall. Violinist ...

J.S. Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” begins with a song, an aria, which is wistful, haunting, beyond beautiful. It’s all right there in the notes. Yet the pianist Simone Dinnerstein does something very ...

Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

Jane Jones explores ‘Music which rests lightly on the wings of the unchecked wind.’ I was captivated by these words from the legendary Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, re-cycling a quote from Beaudelaire ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It seems to be open season for recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. There have been new recordings ...

What are the Goldberg Variations? The work itself consists of 30 variations, starting with a single 'Aria'. After transforming the music over the course of an hour, using different time signatures, ...

Bach's towering keyboard masterpiece, by turns obsessive and joyous, is one of the most notoriously difficult pieces to grapple with. So why do pianists keep feeling its lure? I stopped watching ...

Owing to its Himalayan presence, Bach’s set of 30 keyboard variations is a daunting prospect for any recording artist. Lindsay Kemp speaks to Lang Lang – whose first recording of the work has just ...