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 ...

Andsnes and the MCO’s fresh and sensitive performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos have been an early Proms highlight. But is there such a thing as ‘authentic’ Beethoven? In the glittering wake of ...

Classical CDs: Flutes, Horns and Harpsichords Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord/director), ...

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 ...

Leif-Ove Andnes begins his cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos, or The Beethoven Journey as Sony Classical insists on calling it, by pairing the two works in C: the major-key first concerto, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Hans Otte’s “Book of Sounds,” Jan Lisiecki’s fresh take on Mozart piano concertos and the works of an overlooked composer are among our selections.

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

John Adams: City Noir, Saxophone Concerto St. Louis Symphony/David Robertson, with Timothy McAllister (saxophone) (Nonesuch) There's a lot going on in John Adams's City Noir. Ideas come thick and fast ...

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 ...