Edward Said’s piano teacher recalls Ignace Tiegerman in Cairo.

When you play, use your imagination, make things happen. This way the music will be alive! – Ignace Tiegerman Tiegerman: … Continue reading

Lifting the lid on Debussy’s Canope

Debussy’s Canope seems to clash with the other occupants inside his second book of Prèludes, or to obtrude among anything … Continue reading

A cellist summons the Mongols

  When a cello plays you expect its low range to provide a buttress that stabilizes its highest singing registers that copy operatic and … Continue reading

How an unknown family saga inspired a Tolstoy classic.

A pity if scholars and researchers directly aim for a target while overlooking its neighborhood! If you want to enter a building, isn’t … Continue reading

Russian Poets of the Piano

After completing a decade long Balinese project to retrieve and publish the lost 1928 recordings, I headed over to Paris to spend time with … Continue reading