Rachmaninov was one of the greatest pianists the world has ever known, and the music he wrote for the instrument is passionate, sensual and thrilling. His Second Piano Concerto was life-changing, ...

November 29th, the New York Philharmonic welcomed the prodigious Yunchan Lim to the stage for a spellbinding performance of Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” under the baton of Kazuki Yamada. The ...

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, ...

As Blu-ray is to VHS, Yuja Wang is to most other pianists. This 22-year-old phenom’s performance Wednesday at Davies Symphony Hall was a dazzler, leaving nearly 2,700 concertgoers playing the role of ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook William Bolcom’s recent work, written for the pianist Igor Levit, is streaming after its premiere earlier this year. By Seth Colter ...

Rachmaninov’s very large hands certainly came in useful when performing this, the most technically challenging of all the composer’s four piano concertos. Until 1996, Rachmaminov's third piano ...

'Yuja Wang’s performances are of a wholly individual character and brilliance that discourages comparison' Shostakovich Piano Concertos – No 1 in C minor, Op 35; No 2 in F, Op 102. Prelude in D, Op 34 ...