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 ...

The pianist and composer, who died in 2015, deserves a wider audience for the edgy, lucid soundworld of his compositions ...

The Concerto for Orchestra was composer Bela Bartok's last completed work; he did not live to finish either the Third Piano Concerto or the Viola Concerto that followed it. In these last works, all ...

Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...

The prodigious South Korean talent won 2022’s Van Cliburn piano competition with this performance; his version deserves a place alongside Argerich and Rachmaninov himself As soon as the 2022 Van ...

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 ...

It’s one of the greatest works in the piano repertoire, and it first captivated listeners 123 years ago today. On this day, 9 November, in 1901 in Moscow, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 premiered ...

Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto has long lived in the shadow of its ubiquitous predecessor and fallen victim to well-meaning editorial excisions. Jeremy Nicholas assesses its eight-decade ...

Don't miss the HSO's final program of the season, including performances from this year's concerto winners. Tickets to the April 18 show are free to students. "To have the opportunity to play a solo ...