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, ...

November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. The ...

Many great composers go through periods of significant self-doubt and introspection – particularly when embarking on a major new work. For Chopin, though, there was a sense of abandonment – naïvety, ...

Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 has been voted the nation’s favourite piece of classical music for the third consecutive year, according to a new poll. The music topped the annual Classic FM Hall Of ...

As Blu-ray is to VHS, Yuja Wang is to most other pianists. This 22-year-old phenom’s performance Wednesday at Davies Symphony Hall was a dazzler, leaving nearly 2,700 concertgoers playing the role of ...

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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 classical music repertoire contains hundreds of works for piano and orchestra, and yet we tend to hear only a tiny fraction of them in concert halls today: the familiar piano concertos by Brahms, ...