American pianist Vladimir Horowitz (ca. 1904-1989) was among the last performers in the 19th-century grand-virtuoso tradition. While his phenomenal technique sometimes overwhelmed the music, the power and energy of his playing were unsurpassed. During...

VLADIMIR Horowitz broke the hearts of his fellow musicians. It wasn't that they swooned every time he sat down at the piano. His musicianship was, to many close listeners, of less than world class. He was not known for respecting a composer's intent. Nor...

NEW YORK - Vladimir Horowitz, the Russian-born virtuoso who brought "controlled thunder" to the piano in a glorious career that spanned most of the century, died of a heart attack yesterday at his home. He was 85. His last public performances were in...

Eldar Djangirov's fingers flew across the ivories of the Steinway grand piano at Carnegie Hall as he romped through Oscar Peterson's "Place St. Henri," one of the tunes that first kindled his interest in jazz as a child prodigy in distant Kyrgyzstan.His Carnegie Hall debut...

Back in 2003, when Steinway & Sons celebrated its 150th year of manufacturing splendid pianos, the company raised a few eyebrows in the music world by launching a grand-piano model designed by Karl Lagerfeld. This Steinway Limited Edition, or S.L.ED, was duly produced (as described...