Alexander Melnikov arrived in Ithaca, New York last Saturday for two recitals—the first on Sunday, the second on Tuesday—using a total of four different pianos and a harpsichord to boot. The ...

There is another side to American music than the razzle dazzle that opened Seattle Symphony’s two-week Tuning Up! festival on June 17. On Wednesday and Thursday night, June 29-30, pianist Alexander ...

Melnikov beautifully plays four historic pianos – including an 1820s Alois Graff – on a rewarding disc of Stravinsky, Schumann and more. Plus, the verdict on other must-listen classical albums out ...

Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues have become Alexander Melnikov's calling card of late. Written in 1951 for Tatiana Nikolayeva, whose Bach performances Shostakovich hugely admired, they have a ...

When he was just 8 years old, pianist Alexander Melnikov had his first transformative musical experience — listening to Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 at a December Nights music ...

Though all have flourishing solo careers, violinist Isabelle Faust, pianist Alexander Melnikov and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras are an established piano trio in all but name. In fact, they combine with ...

Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov spoke to Classic FM's Anne-Marie Minhall the day after playing a concert on Mozart's own personal piano, recently brought home to Vienna, to the exact spot where ...

A Vancouver Recital Society presentation. At the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday and Sunday, May 26 and 27 How do you describe perfection? The words are there—brilliant, awesome, ...

The brainchild of pianist Alexander Melnikov, this features five of the 30 or so sonatas for instruments and piano that Paul Hindemith wrote over the course of his long career. The selection covers ...

The performance was given on period instruments, still more the exception than the rule for Beethoven chamber music. For the first half, the Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Melnikov played a fortepiano ...

The sound Alexander Melnikov coaxes out of his instrument is never “lovely” but is always maximally alive and alert. Rating: * * * * Some pianists relish their own mastery of the keyboard, flinging ...