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.

Late in life, Arthur Rubinstein, one of a series of legendary musicians who influenced Daniel Barenboim, gave a number of programs made up of famous piano concertos. Thursday night at Orchestra Hall, ...

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 ...

Musicologists puzzled over a lost Ludwig van Beethoven concerto for decades, ever since the 1960s discovery of the sketch of a single movement among the composer's papers. Now, two Dutch Beethoven ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Pianist Inon Barnatan returns to New Jersey Symphony stages to perform all ...

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 ...

Complete cycles of the Beethoven piano concertos have been as regular as rumbling Metra trains at Ravinia at least since the late 1970s. The latest pianist to venture the five concertos here is the ...

This past April, the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra embarked on its survey of Beethoven’s five piano concertos by playing the composer’s Concertos Nos. 2, 3, and 4 with soloist Anne-Marie McDermott.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Today it’s one of the most well-loved violin concertos, but it wasn’t so popular at first... Violinist ...

Watch Emmanuel Ax and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Piano Concertos 3 and 4 at the Sydney Opera House. Beethoven composed his 3rd and 4th Piano Concertos between 1800 and 1806 – a ...

To play one Beethoven piano concerto at the Proms looks like good fortune (as Oscar Wilde could have said, had he known), but to perform all five is – well, another matter altogether, especially with ...

A piano concerto Beethoven was working on when he was 18 years old premiered Feb. 1 in Rotterdam. Reconstructed by Dutch musicologist Cees Nieuwenhuizen, the work was found in 2004 among a group of ...