From principal oboist Mary Lynch’s reedy mastery to the politely timed coughing of its die-hard patrons (a mini-explosion between movements), the Seattle Symphony holds an eternal soft spot in my ...

Three pieces of music with a magical and mythical air, conjured up by conductor Lionel Bringuier and The BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Paul Dukas's Sorcerer’s Apprentice - immortalized in the ...

Shin’s first piano concerto will be performed by Seong-Jin Cho (pictured below) at the Barbican this November, marking the first time that classical music has been included as part of London’s annual ...

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 ...

Rising star pianist Arsha Kaviani took one of classical music’s most formidable pieces of music, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2, and set himself a solo challenge of a mind-blowing symphonic scale.

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The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace by Sir Karl Jenkins has been voted the nation’s favourite piece of classical music.

Like the music of his good friend Béla Bartók, Scottish composer Erik Chisholm's two piano concertos rely heavily on folk sources. But in Chisholm's case, the influences come from Scotland and India ...

When he was a child, music critic Tom Manoff heard the music of Edvard Grieg, particularly his piano concerto in A-minor. This piece of music is known as a workhorse. In pop music, it would be ...

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil, are good fits for this theatrical piano concerto This is a passion project for Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who has wanted to record Aram ...

Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 has been revealed as Britain's favourite piece of classical music – beating Vaughan Williams for the second year in a row. The Russian composer's piece came out on ...