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 ...

Sometimes old recipes, newly tweaked, can yield astonishing results. Consider the concerto: It might be a 400-year-old formula, calling for a soloist to perform with — and often battle against — an ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...

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 ...

The unfailingly stylish Alexandre Tharaud completes his odyssey into the French composer’s piano music with his two piano concertos, and the additional work, de Falla’s celebrated suite, finds him ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the pianist Igor Levit discuss Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto, a rarity they are performing in San Francisco.

Rachmaninov was one of the greatest pianists the world has ever known, and the music he wrote for the instrument is passionate, sensual and thrilling. His Second Piano Concerto was life-changing, ...

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 is a typical example of his craft, and of the classical period's best work. Find out exactly why this, one of his latest, is among the best. The piano concertos of ...

Anne-Marie Minhall writes that Michael Nyman's concerto always brings back haunting memories of the movie, The Piano. Nobody expected that Jane Campion's 1993 film, The Piano would be such a huge ...

Kristian Bezuidenhout and Pablo Heras-Casado make these concertos sing in readings that feel both freewheeling and profound Hopefully you are not sick of Beethoven yet in his 250th anniversary year, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by At the San Francisco Symphony, Magnus Lindberg’s music is being conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, his fellow Finn and former classmate. By Joshua Barone ...