Sony Pictures Classics has picked up rights to the animated feature They Shot the Piano Player for the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, India, the Middle East, Turkey, Southeast Asia ...

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, ...

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 ...

Working with a Salzburg orchestra, Anda made his recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, and even in the boyhood works, Concertos Nos. 1-4 (1767), which draw on music by other composers, a Mozartian ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on consecutive weeks by Denis Kozhukhin. Richard Bratby tells the story of their ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Look no further for the events marking the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. As Gewandhauskapellmeister ...

If you’ve spent any time around classical music, you might have heard the word ‘concerto’. It is a testimony to the enduring relevance of the concerto that for over four centuries, the genre has ...