Two-time GRAMMY Award winner Michelle Cann, lauded champion of Florence Price's music, displays her versatility performing ...
Composer and pianist Olivia Belli will release a new album, Daimon, on Sony Classical, centered on a piano concerto inspired ...
The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...
From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...
Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...
The great Polish composer Witold Lutosławski once said: ‘I love traditional instruments – though of course they are anachronisms…Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons…It’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Glass, like Bach before him, ...