Celebrate Music Day in Paris with an unprecedented event at the Cité de l’Economie! On Sunday, June 21, 2026, the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot brings this venue, housed in the historic Hôtel ...

In the first of a new series of weekly columns, leading pianists choose their favourite performer of all time. Coming up: playwrights and lead vocalists. I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an ...

I don’t play accurately—anyone can play accurately—but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. And yet it can hardly be ...

There can be little to be said at this time of day about Cortot’s playing of the twenty-four Preludes. His complete recording of them seven years ago has a place in gramophone history; the ...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The tensions in France following the second World War between those who had supported the Vichy collaborationist regime and those opposed to it flowed into all aspects of life, ...

extraordinary exhibit, “Matisse as Printmaker,” which opens Sunday. Among the 150 or so prints, all of them worth a long look, are two portraits of Alfred Cortot, the Franco-Swiss pianist with an ...

Legendary pianist Alfred Cortot was also a fine arranger. Hear He Yue play some of Cortot's most famous pieces. The soloist on this exhilarating recording is He Yue – a Chinese pianist who’s rapidly ...

After five volumes of Cortot’s Chopin, Naxos continues with a miscellany dating from 1929 to 1937 of an incomparable glory. Made long before today’s scissors-and-paste, splicing-and-slicing ...

69.5 x 62.5 cm. (27 ½ x 24 5/8 in.) ...