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 ...

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 ...

The mini-festival of famous piano concertos that dominates the fourth week of the 2009 Colorado Music Festival is a variation on the Beethoven blast that packed Chautauqua last summer. “I couldn’t ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After the Colorado Music Festival scored a big hit last summer by performing all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in an eight-day span of five concerts, the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Her fingers flying impossibly fast over the keyboard, 23-year-old Jie Chen left no doubt of her technical virtuosity Sunday night at Boulder’s Chautauqua ...

Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...

In the great piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Bartók, the driving impulse is a kind of competition for eloquence. The piano declares itself with fierceness, tenderness or ...

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 ...

When I was a student at the Paris Conservatoire, I started by learning this piece, not Brahms’s First Concerto. Many people were more attracted initially to the latter, maybe because it has a ...

One of the greatest piano concertos ever written actually received insults and rejection when it was new and was called unplayable. After it’s premiere, one scathing review said it would never become ...