Schubert and BalakirevAt the Sanibel Music Festival in Florida, Olga Kern performs the Impromptu in B flat, by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), followed by "Islamey," a finger-twister by Miry Balakirev ...

Peter Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat Minor (opus 23), performed by pianist Andrei Gavrilov and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conducting; Tchaikovsky, Theme and Variations (opus ...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra play Balakirev's Islamey, Khachaturian's Piano Concerto (with Marc-André Hamelin) and Vassily Kalinnikov's Symphony No 1 at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

An extraordinary pianist plays a piece so difficult, the composer himself could barely play it: Mily Balakirev's "Islamey," in concert in Portland, Oregon, with the young Korean pianist Dong-Hyek Lim.

This is the second volume of Philips’ “Great Pianists of the 20th Century” series devoted to the British pianist John Ogdon, whose extraordinary career came to an abrupt halt in 1973 when he fell ill ...

The celebrated Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner brings together Handel's Chaconne with Schumann’s 18 miniature pieces, Davidsbündlertänze, which the composer began working on just a week after his ...