This recording of Serkin from 1977 highlights a 20th-century great who brought musical purpose and intellectual rigour to every detail Rudolf Serkin ranks among the greatest of 20th-century pianists; ...

Beethoven composed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in 1800, and it was first performed three years later, on 5 April 1803. The most soulful of all Beethoven’s music is arguably found in his piano concertos.

The Finnish pianist-composer-conductor Olli Mustonen is as noted for his eccentricity as for his radicalism. The quirk when it comes to his Beethoven concerto cycle - this is the second instalment - ...