In the first of this year’s summer editions of Classical Live, we hear highlights from the First Night of the Proms, when ...

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 ...

At first sight this looks more like record-company match-making than a meeting of minds: a pianist who established his reputation as a peerless interpreter of contemporary music recording the ...

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 ...

The piano concerto is one of classical music’s most thrilling and expressive forms – a fusion of lyrical beauty, dazzling virtuosity, and dramatic dialogue between soloist and orchestra. Across ...

Star Wars composer John Williams is named most popular living composer in Ultimate Classic FM Hall of Fame, which combines 20 years' worth of polling data from annual Hall of Fame poll. Rachmaninov’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Saturday, classical pianist Yuja Wang will return to a Sun Valley stage in what may seem like an unlikely pairing. The ...

Tharaud/ Rotterdam PO/Nézet-Séguin/ Frankfurt RSO/ Ceccherini/ Les Violons du Roy/Lussier (Erato) Alexandre Tharaud performs three new piano concertos, of varying quality, but each with his ...