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In his San Francisco Symphony debut, conductor John Storgårds brings subtlety and eloquence to Beethoven's Fifth.

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 ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered by many to be the greatest composer ever. And his 27 piano concertos may be his finest work. But Mozart had a formula for the 27 and he used it over and over ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I have played these pieces my whole professional life and I've taught them and I've heard other people playing them. So, it was really time, in a sense, to do them myself. I felt I was I was ready in ...

Two-time GRAMMY Award winner Michelle Cann, lauded champion of Florence Price's music, displays her versatility performing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A generation has passed since period instruments took off, but it is still rare to see a piano of the ...

Sometimes old recipes, newly tweaked, can yield astonishing results. Consider the concerto: It might be a 400-year-old formula, calling for a soloist to perform with — and often battle against — an ...