Bizet’s solo piano music is rarely encountered in the concert hall. Most standard reference books on piano repertoire omit ...

Jed Distler reads a majestic book on Beethoven’s chamber music: ‘Donat unwraps the complex layers of Beethoven’s middle-period works to an impressively penetrating degree’ Strange as it seems, ...

How are the remaining candidates approaching programming and pacing? With additional stage time and repertoire options, it’s fascinating to see how each second-stage candidate apportions their slots ...

Piano Quartet No. 3 Krystian Zimerman, Piano Maria Nowak, Violin Katarzyna Budnik, Viola Yuya Okamoto, Cello Piano Quartet No. 2 Krystian Zimerman, Piano Maria Nowak, Violin Katarzyna Budnik, Viola ...

For the Chopin Competition’s final round, each candidate is required to play one of the composer’s two piano concertos. Most finalists favour Concerto No 1 in E Minor over Concerto No 2 in F Minor for ...

Michael McManus invites 10 of today’s leading pianists to discuss 10 great examples of the Piano Concerto The great Polish composer Witold Lutosławski once said ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Tomáš Vrána, Piano Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra Gábor Káli, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Tomáš Vrána, Piano Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Oliver Triendl, Piano Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Roland Kluttig, Conductor Piano Concerto Oliver Triendl, Piano Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Roland ...

This may be the best designed piano competition yet. Run for the last decade under the benign dictatorship of Rob Hilberink, it combines the best elements of a rigorous competition and a festival ...

Margaret Fingerhut reflects on heritage, history, and hope in her recital and recording 'Ukraine – A Piano Portrait', featuring works by overlooked Ukrainian composers It is not my usual custom to hug ...

If Saint-Saëns’s idiom once answered – and maybe still does – to qualities fundamental to the French musical character, it must be said straight away that Hough sounds the complete insider. He ...