This is our second story in our series on the characteristics of musical keys. We started with the “people’s key,” C major. From there it’s an easy skip to D, the root of today’s subject, the “saddest ...

Pianist Christopher O'Riley plays two preludes: "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair," by Debussy, and the Prelude in D Minor, by Chopin.

In my 2021 Gramophone Chopin Competition blog, I wrote the following about Hyu’s older sibling Hyuk Lee: ‘Everything Lee plays sounds the same. He doesn’t make magic. He doesn’t make waves, nor take ...