Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ottorino Respighi, and Zoltan Kodaly were all European composers who were born within a decade of each other and who wrote immensely tuneful music well into the 20th century.

The movie “Shine” has created a phenomenon that suggests a new low in standards for classical music — something to which I am no doubt contributing by writing about the film for the second time in two ...

There is a moment in the 1996 film “Shine” (a dramatization of the life of the pianist David Helfgott) when a piano teacher describes Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto as a “mountain.” While the ...

Music by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Chopin et al., plus original score by David Hirschfelder, performed by David Helfgott and others Philips I haven’t seen the movie “Shine” yet, but if it’s as good as its ...

The ailing classical music industry may be getting a shot in the arm from an unlikely source named David Helfgott: a hyper-manic, middle-aged pianist who spent 15 years in mental institutions and ...