British pianist Clare Hammond selects unfairly neglected piano concertos that deserve to be performed more often ...

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 British pianist Paul Lewis has been reaping extravagant praise - particularly from his countrymen - for his Beethoven recordings, including a complete cycle of the sonatas and now this set of the ...

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 ...

As an occasional pianist, a much-loved entertainment is a trip to the concert hall in Dublin to hear a top performer in action with an orchestra. Recently in Earlsfort Terrace, Finghin Collins, ...

Beethoven completed five Piano Concertos in under 20 years, but from the age of 38 he would never finish one again as his deafness stopped him from performing, writes John Suchet. Five completed Piano ...

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 ...

Shostakovich’s first piano concerto has always been something of a party piece. While it starts in a serious frame of mind, the music goes out of control in the barnstorming finale, containing ...

The indefatigable Marc-André Hamelin has two discs out this month. The one that couples Max Reger’s 1910 Piano Concerto with Richard Strauss’s Burleske from the mid-1880s comes as part of Hyperion’s ...