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These are the 21 greatest piano concertos of all time

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 ...
NPR

A New Piano Concerto For The People

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 ...
The New York Times

Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook William Bolcom’s recent work, written for the pianist Igor Levit, is streaming after its premiere earlier this year. By Seth Colter ...
The New York Times

‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto

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.
The Aspen Times

Concertos — and sort-of concertos: The best of Aspen Music Festival’s weekend

It was a great weekend for Shostakovich and Prokofiev concertos at the Aspen Music Festival, with a fine smattering of other concerto-like pieces to liven up the proceedings. Augustin Hadelich never ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

MUSIC: Pianist plays Fourth Concerto; works by Mexican composers fill out ASO ‘Beethoven & Blue Jeans’ program

Ludwig van Beethoven is the only non-Mexican composer on the program for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s “Beethoven & Blue Jeans” concerts this weekend at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance ...