Kirill Gerstein

The Magic of Radu Lupu

Trying to understand his phrasing, timing, or the effect his bear-like posture at the keyboard has on the sound yields only partial results. The whole is greater than the sum of its ingredients.

The Real Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, with its grand opening chords, is one of the most recognizable and popular pieces in the classical music repertoire. Yet those chords are not, in fact, what Tchaikovsky wrote at all.

Tchaikovsky’s “Wrong” Note

Is the F in the opening of the slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto a mistake? A musical investigation.