After completing this concerto in 1806, the composer struggled to find anyone to perform it. So the work sat on a shelf, gathering dust, until its public premiere on 22 December 1808. Just imagine ...

Playing a modern grand, the Dutch pianist opens with Beethoven’s revised (1808) version of the great Fourth Piano Concerto. There are over 30 amendments to the better-known original (1806), mainly in ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 Maria João Pires, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Daniel Harding, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 Swedish ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra Antál Dorati, Conductor Arthur Rubinstein, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Prole do bebê, Book I, Movements: Moreninha Heitor ...

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.

Croatian pianist-composer Dejan Lazić will doubtless add to his reputation for erratic brilliance with this recording of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto. Recorded live in Sydney in 2009, it uses more or ...

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 ...

This recording of Serkin from 1977 highlights a 20th-century great who brought musical purpose and intellectual rigour to every detail Rudolf Serkin ranks among the greatest of 20th-century pianists; ...

Classical music can be carved up in all sorts of ways, but one way seems ideally clear-cut. There’s music, and there’s music for opera. One takes place in concert halls, and is listened to for its ...

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 ...

The ASO's Beethoven Piano concerto series continues with Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. Opening the night is the vivacious La Clemenza de Tito: Overture by Mozart. Immediately thereafter you will ...