Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

The piano concerto is one of classical music’s most thrilling and expressive forms – a fusion of lyrical beauty, dazzling virtuosity, and dramatic dialogue between soloist and orchestra. Across ...

In the first of this year’s summer editions of Classical Live, we hear highlights from the First Night of the Proms, when ...

The piano is such a versatile instrument, that naturally, everyone wants to write for it. From sonatas to concertos, we’ve gathered the pieces of music that showcase the piano at its best… This is a ...

When he was a child, music critic Tom Manoff heard the music of Edvard Grieg, particularly his piano concerto in A-minor. This piece of music is known as a workhorse. In pop music, it would be ...

From principal oboist Mary Lynch’s reedy mastery to the politely timed coughing of its die-hard patrons (a mini-explosion between movements), the Seattle Symphony holds an eternal soft spot in my ...

Three pieces of music with a magical and mythical air, conjured up by conductor Lionel Bringuier and The BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Paul Dukas's Sorcerer’s Apprentice - immortalized in the ...

Tharaud/ Rotterdam PO/Nézet-Séguin/ Frankfurt RSO/ Ceccherini/ Les Violons du Roy/Lussier (Erato) Alexandre Tharaud performs three new piano concertos, of varying quality, but each with his ...

Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) was a Franco-German composer-pianist whose reputation was eclipsed in his lifetime by Chopin and Liszt, among others. Though his music is variable in inspiration, ...

Star Wars composer John Williams is named most popular living composer in Ultimate Classic FM Hall of Fame, which combines 20 years' worth of polling data from annual Hall of Fame poll. Rachmaninov’s ...

This year the BBC Proms highlights some fantastic and extraordinary concertos, musical works for an instrumental soloist and an orchestra or ensemble. From Shostakovich to Mozart, and Vivaldi to new ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Taking a cue from Mozart, András Schiff appeared with the New York Philharmonic as both piano soloist and conductor. By Joshua Barone There was a time ...