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 ...

III. Presto – Molto allegro e vivacePerformance duration 18' 31"Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25Felix ...

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 ...

In this film, classical music itself becomes the 'story'.The 1996 film 'Shine'.It is a work based on the real-life Australian pianist David Helfgott.There is a piece of music that radiates an intense ...

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.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Composer Magnus Lindberg’s evolution has been fascinating, parallel to some other lapsed modernists but somehow ...

Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...

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, ...

Simon Trpčeski is warm and nimble in these two mercurial piano concertos, says Geoff Brown ...

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 ...

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 ...