The Music No. 5 is the last of Beethoven’s piano concertos, and the grandest. Ever the innovator, Beethoven begins with flourishes on the piano, which however falls silent until it re-enters in ...

The ASO's Beethoven Piano concerto series comes to a triumphant end with Beethoven's Piano Concertos No. 5 "The Emperor". Opening the night is Schubert's Symphony No. 5, a modest work for small ...

Legendary piano virtuoso, Krystian Zimerman’s recordings of Beethoven’s five majestic Piano Concertos were broadcast in full on the Classic FM Concert. Every night this week, John Suchet has been ...

Though not quite reaching the sublime heights of Evgeny Kissin's interpretations in last year's issue of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with Sir Colin Davis and the LSO, Finnish pianist Olli ...

Getting a head start on the impending Beethoven 2020 festivities, Canada's Jan Lisiecki has today surprised us with Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, his fifth ...

Despite being the first Chinese pianist to be awarded the gold medal at the Cliburn Competition (in 2009) and one of the youngest first-prize winners, Haochen Zhang's progress into the recording ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...