The Washington Post once called the notoriously difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, “40 minutes of finger-twisting madness.” Sir Stephen Hough is the able soloist in this “Mt.

James P. Johnson was sometimes called the "perfecter" of stride piano, the difficult piano form where the left hand "strides" up and down between... James P. Johnson: 'The Original James P. Johnson, ...