Stormy, emotionally charged harmonic shifts. Flowing classical lyricism interrupted by lightning bolt chords. Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios.

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

Beethoven completed five Piano Concertos in under 20 years, but from the age of 38 he would never finish one again as his deafness stopped him from performing, writes John Suchet. Five completed Piano ...

Beethoven completed five piano concertos in under 20 years, earning considerable amounts of money by performing them himself in concert. Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has performed the ...

Getting a head start on the impending Beethoven 2020 festivities, Canada's Jan Lisiecki has today surprised us with Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, his fifth ...

Under the guidance of famed American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein Polish classical pianist Krystian Zimerman and the Vienna Philharmonic deliver a rousing performance of Ludwig van ...

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 ...

Watch Emmanuel Ax and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5 live from the Sydney Opera House. The title ‘The Emperor’ seems appropriate for Beethoven’s majestic final ...

One of the highlights of Simon Rattle’s 16-year tenure as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was his final cycle of the Beethoven symphonies (BPHR160091), a set that rightly walked off with ...

Almost 200 years after his death, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) remains perhaps the most remembered and beloved composer in history. Because none of us were around to hear him play, what is often ...

St Petersburg-born and London-based, Sudbin brings delicacy and crystalline articulation to these concertos, creating a sense of classical grace rather than romantic scale. This is not barnstorming ...

Having followed with interest and admiration Andras Schiff’s slowly maturing Decca cycle of the Mozart piano concertos, a cycle that proved to be consistently interesting because it is built on a ...