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 ...

It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano – the Chopin Competition, which takes place every five years in Warsaw. Here, ...

From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beethoven completed five piano concertos in under 20 years, earning considerable amounts of money by performing them himself in concert. Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has performed the ...

Radio 3 New Generation Artist Julius Asal performs his inaugural concert as the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields BBC New ...

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. In a letter dated July 10 1839, Robert Schumann wrote to his beloved Clara, “You complete me as a composer, as ...

Stormy, emotionally charged harmonic shifts. Flowing classical lyricism interrupted by lightning bolt chords. Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A generation has passed since period instruments took off, but it is still rare to see a piano of the ...