Barbara Cook Someone who was definitely flesh and blood was the great Barbara Cook. Her creamy effortless lyric soprano led the original casts of many musicals of the 1950s and, when she was no longer […]
The pianist Jonathan Biss, in a New York Times essay, attempts to delineate the impact on a performer of playing the late works of the two great Vienna contemporaries. He does so in an attempt […]
The Chinese pianist has quit the talent-spotting show The Pianist after two tear-jerk seasons. ‘Being a mentor on The Piano and spending time with the talented pianists has been a true joy. The level of […]