Shura Cherkassky Live: 80th Birthday Recital From Carnegie Hall Music by Bach-Busoni, Schumann, Chopin, Ives, Hofmann, Tchaikovsky-Pabst and Morton Gould; Shura Cherkassky, piano (London). This ...

Shura Cherkassky is an example of the wonderful things you can do with a piano if you practice hard for most of a century. In his recital at Orchestra Hall Sunday, this 83-year-old master combined the ...

If you don’t get upset by petty irritation, there isn’t another piano disc you’ll enjoy more this year than Shura Cherkassky’s “80th Birthday Recital From Carnegie Hall” (London). For those who ...

With his slightly mischievous demeanor, the pianist Shura Cherkassky looks like somebody’s grandfather — specifically, a somebody from a Russian-Jewish background. To someone from such a background ...

Various composers: Piano recital. Shura Cherkassky (Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0014, mid-price). HE was a legend in his lifetime. Never more so than in a never-to-be-forgotten recital to open the ...

HE was a legend in his lifetime. Never more so than in a never-to-be-forgotten recital to open the Manchester Glories of the Keyboard festival at the Royal Northern College of Music in November, 1995, ...