Yesterday afternoon, Denis Matsuev played a recital in Carnegie Hall. Vladimir Horowitz, too, liked to play on Sunday afternoons—but his recitals started at four, whereas this one started at two. Like ...

Does the pianist have muscle? That's the first thing listeners may want to know when hearing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, and at the Houston Symphony season-opening gala Russian pianist Denis ...

I am going to try to avoid all the cliches about burly Russian bears at the piano, mindless Soviet-style technical training, and brawn without brains in this precis of Denis Matsuev's extraordinary ...