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 ...

"I have played these pieces my whole professional life and I've taught them and I've heard other people playing them. So, it was really time, in a sense, to do them myself. I felt I was I was ready in ...

I salivated when I read the tracklisting on this immaculately produced disc. I wasn’t disappointed; you’d need a heart of ice to resist Florian Uhlig’s playing. Debussy’s three-movement Fantaisie pour ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Daniil Trifonov (main picture) opened the proceedings with an austere but committed reading of the First Concerto. Trifonov has a distinctive sound, precise, clean and focused. He is expressive, but ...

This past April, the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra embarked on its survey of Beethoven’s five piano concertos by playing the composer’s Concertos Nos. 2, 3, and 4 with soloist Anne-Marie McDermott.

Who was the best pianist of all time? We asked 100 leading pianists to name the performers who have brought the most magic to ...

Like the music of his good friend Béla Bartók, Scottish composer Erik Chisholm's two piano concertos rely heavily on folk sources. But in Chisholm's case, the influences come from Scotland and India ...

Stephen Hough is a famous polymath. He teaches pianists at the Juilliard School in New York, and he’s produced a best-selling iPad app exposing the mechanics of Liszt’s great Piano Sonata in B Minor.