Mozart: Piano Concertos in C Major K 503 & D Minor K 466, Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra Mozart, cond Claudio Abbado, DG 479 1033, £14.99 Back in the Sixties, the first recording that Claudio ...
This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...
Imagine you’re a classical pianist in demand all over the world. Every time you walk on stage, your job is to reawaken a work ...
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, ...
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This weekend, acclaimed American pianist Garrick Ohlsson joins the National Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Rossen Milanov making his NSO debut, at the Kennedy Center for three performances of ...
The first all-Australian piano concerto cycle in more than 20 years is an exciting and poignant contribution to the 2020 Beethoven celebrations. Beethoven's five piano concertos were written over a ...