Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Uchida’s third Mozart disc as soloist/director with the Cleveland Orchestra is every bit as satisfying as its ...

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (EMI 557 8032) Written in January 1777, as he was turning 21, Mozart's ninth concerto (the 'Jeunehomme') is generally regarded as his first mature ...

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, ...

Orchestra da Camera di Mantova/Angela Hewitt (piano) Hyperion CDA 67840**** Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt is beginning a new journey, this one through Mozart’s piano concertos. The first instalment ...

It's Mozart, so you expect genius to jump out of the speakers, and it does, on Jeunehomme: Mozart Piano Concerto No 9 K-271. And it's not just the genius of the composer, it's also a brilliant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17 is both one of the most famous pieces in Paderewski’s repertoire and one of the greatest Polish piano achievements. The first part of the work – an allegro – had ...

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 ...

Williams is best known for his grandly symphonic, Oscar-winning film scores. But his latest concert work is quieter, and more haunting. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Lenox, Mass. You could be ...