Having already done one Antarctica cruise, I was quite looking forward to this trip and felt I knew what to expect. I arrived in the...

A great deal of confusion surrounds the term “The Russian Pianistic Tradition”. This phrase has been applied to any successful pianist comin

When I was invited to give two concerts onboard a luxury 6-star cruise ship sailing to Antarctica last January, I was very excited:...

About two years ago, after one of Vladimir Ashkenazy’s concerts at the Royal Festival Hall I was talking to him about a piece that is...