The challenge for Barbara Kingsolver and Yiyun Li: capturing how dedication to the piano can be a source of joy and pain.

The Chinese-born writer's new book follows the convergent fates of two child prodigies in 18th century Europe. Her 2025 ...

Gloria has always loved piano and she still plays it today. Her long life, however, she attributes to more than music.

I wanted to play "To Zanarkand" from FFIn 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to stay-at-home orders around the world.My work ...

Li – whose own experiences provide a deeper painful haunting – counterpoints Field’s heavily pressurised upbringing with that ...

John Field and Adelaide Percheron, the protagonists in my new book, were born in the eighteenth century. Was I writing a ...

Tonight, I am listening to J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, performed on piano by Minsoo Sohn and released by ...

Nikki and Timothy Chooi speak to Davina Shum about their new album Double, featuring repertoire dedicated to two violins that ...

Before she won the Pulitzer for Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver wasn't sure her neighbors knew what she did for a living. Her new novel Partita, about a classical pianist, gets very personal.Support ...

From Bach’s sacred architecture to Debussy’s shimmering dreamscapes, these 21 masterpieces trace the piano’s evolution: a ...

Plus Catherine Gammon’s “The Martyrs, The Lovers” and Julie Orringer’s “Luna, Phoenix, Queen.” ...

The Tattooist of Auschwitz author Heather Morris speaks to Laura Reid about the real life story behind her powerful new novel ...