Eschewing a glitzy career, the pianist, who was heard in the movie Amadeus, earned a reputation as one of the greats of his generation, especially... Unassuming Czech Pianist Ivan Moravec Dies At 84 ...
Some heart-on-the-sleeve piano music is next. In concert at the most recent Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Christopher Taylor plays "Evening Harmonies" from the ...
Let me speak first of Frédéric Chopin’s Fourth Ballade in F minor. It is a complex, glorious, majestic, almost mythical piece. An entire novel has been written about it–Italian author Roberto Cotroneo ...
Pianist Ivan Moravec last saw his teenage years more than half a century ago, but he doesn't seem to have any trouble conjuring up the adolescent passion Josef Suk was feeling when he wrote his Love ...
Born in Prague, Ivan Moravec enjoyed a loyal following among piano buffs thanks to his recordings and relatively rare concert appearances. After study in his native Prague, Moravec attended ...
On Friday night, the Metropolitan Museum hosted a master: Ivan Moravec, the Czech pianist born in 1930. I have often described Mr. Moravec as a “pianist’s pianist,” and I’m afraid I will stick to the ...
New York chronicle by Jay Nordlinger On Lorin Maazel’s Tchaikovsky festival, the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the pianist Ivan Moravec at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the London Symphony ...