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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alongside some of the best-known piano concertos in the repertoire, including Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (16 July & 2 August), Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 (30 July) and Beethoven’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a letter dated July 10 1839, Robert Schumann wrote to his beloved Clara, “You complete me as a composer, as ...