So, you want to get to know a piece of classical music better. Let’s say you pick Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto, called the Emperor Concerto. You’ve heard that it’s one of the biggest and best in ...

Romanian pianist Andrei Licaret performs with the 'Magic Summer' Festival Orchestra.

Andsnes and the MCO’s fresh and sensitive performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos have been an early Proms highlight. But is there such a thing as ‘authentic’ Beethoven? In the glittering wake of ...

Jane Jones explores the drama that reveals the piano as the poet. If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then ...

Beethoven completed five Piano Concertos in under 20 years, but from the age of 38 he would never finish one again as his deafness stopped him from performing, writes John Suchet. Five completed Piano ...

Watch Emmanuel Ax and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5 live from the Sydney Opera House. The title ‘The Emperor’ seems appropriate for Beethoven’s majestic final ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, Movements: Allegro con brio Evgeny Kissin, Piano London Symphony Orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Colin Davis, Conductor Concerto for Piano and ...

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 ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Stefan Vladar, Director, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Vienna Chamber Orchestra Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Stefan Vladar, Director, Piano ...

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 ...

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