This ragtime is impossible to overlook! For all that, Scott Joplin’s music was largely forgotten for a long time after his death in 1917, until 1970, when the young pianist and musicologist Joshua Rifkin set off a veritable Joplin renaissance with his recording “Piano Rags”. Thanks to the film score for the crime caper “The Sting”, Joplin’s ragtime pieces have become world-famous and are greatly loved by pianists of all ages and playing levels.

It is therefore hard to imagine a more suitable ...