The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...

What’s a little less Lang Lang and a little less Haydn in the over-the-top final weeks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s exceedingly generous centennial season? Gustavo Dudamel had planned a ...

Working with a Salzburg orchestra, Anda made his recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, and even in the boyhood works, Concertos Nos. 1-4 (1767), which draw on music by other composers, a Mozartian ...

Having followed with interest and admiration Andras Schiff’s slowly maturing Decca cycle of the Mozart piano concertos, a cycle that proved to be consistently interesting because it is built on a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Look no further for the events marking the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. As Gewandhauskapellmeister ...

This year the BBC Proms highlights some fantastic and extraordinary concertos, musical works for an instrumental soloist and an orchestra or ensemble. From Shostakovich to Mozart, and Vivaldi to new ...

As part of its annual tradition, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra presents five out of the six “Brandenburg” Concertos written ...

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on consecutive weeks by Denis Kozhukhin. Richard Bratby tells the story of their ...

If you have come to expect sublime lyricism and melody from Tchaikovsky, his violin concerto will certainly not disappoint. One of the most popular pieces of music ever written, this concerto is ...