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Seymour Bernstein (1927 - 2026) Reveals the Genius of Beethoven’s Für Elise

The silenced Masterpiece Hidden In Plain Sight for 200 years (Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn)

The Smarter Way to Play Octaves (ft. Sara Davis Buechner)

The impossible beauty of Godowsky's Chopin Etudes

He died in poverty...but he left behind a masterpiece. (Moszkowski's Piano Concerto in E Major)

Announcing the 2026 Colburn–tonebase Summer Piano Seminar for highschool students

I finally listened to one of the best recordings of Prokofiev 3rd Concerto.

How Cliburn's disruptive win exposed a musical crisis (the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition)

Paris booed Ravel's most radical masterpiece (La Valse, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales)

Rotation Explained in 6 Levels of Complexity (feat. Cheli, Golandsky, Durso & Bernstein)

Jazz pianist reacts to classical pianists trying to play jazz (Yuja, Horowitz, Sumino & more)

Cliburn Competition Champion shares the secret to leaps (Prokofiev 2, Liszt) feat. Haochen Zhang

He wrote it in desperation. She made it immortal. (Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto, Martha Argerich)

How Yuja Wang survived the impossible (Rachmaninoff, Carnegie Hall, and the Miracle of Performance)

Small Hands Reach Wider—Safely (ft. Sara Davis Buechner)

Play Chopin Like a Chopin Competition Winner (ft. Yulianna Avdeeva)

The hardest easy piece ever written (Arvo Pärt and Für Alina, ft. Tähe-Lee Liiv)

How a dying pianist brought Brahms's final piano piece to life (Op. 119, Julius Katchen, Schumann)

How Alfred Brendel illuminates an unpopular masterpiece (Brendel tribute, Uchida)

The cursed masterpiece which crushes competitions dreams (Magdalene Ho and Franck)

Marin Alsop on how Yunchan Lim 임윤찬 changed the game (Rachmaninoff 3rd, Ben Laude)

How an unfinished masterpiece broke romanticism (Barber's Piano Concerto, Browning, Ohlsson)

It was his masterpiece...and he almost destroyed it. (Albéniz, Iberia and Alicia de Larrocha)

tonebase Los Angeles Music Intensive at the Colburn School (2025)

The pianist leading a new golden age for classical music (Ólafsson, Bach, and a billion streams)

Schumann's Träumerei isn't what you think. (Horowitz and the 1986 Moscow concert)

The rebellious genius who rewrote piano history (Scarlatti's 555 sonatas ft. Huangci and Baczewska)

The impossible concerto which changed virtuosity forever (feat. Marc-André Hamelin)

How to unlock Bach's genius with ornaments (feat. Lisa Yui and Mahan Esfahani)

An inside look at the tonebase Piano Camp (feat. Dominic Cheli, Ben Laude)