Brian Wise

Producer, Editor and Journalist

Tag: piano

  • Conrad Tao Performs Rzewski’s Epic Protest Work

    Conrad Tao Performs Rzewski’s Epic Protest Work

    Live from his New York City apartment, the pianist Conrad Tao on March 25 performed The People United Will Never Be Defeated, Frederic Rzewski’s epic set of 36 variations on the 1973 Chilean protest song.

  • Kirill Gerstein Makes a Case for Tchaikovsky’s Earlier Thoughts

    March 12, 2015 Kirill Gerstein came to the WQXR performance studio to show why he believes history has embraced the “wrong” version of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The Russian pianist had recently issued the world premiere recording of the concerto’s 1879 version. As he discusses in this excerpt, the biggest difference between the 1879 and the more familiar 1894 version could…