Every Tuesday through January we're spending a few minutes with Mozart authority Nicholas Kenyon, to talk about specific recordings. Kenyon manages the Proms concerts for the BBC when he's not writing ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the 1780s Mozart took the bold step of throwing himself into life as a freelance composer. Rather than ...
One of the greatest pianists of our time returns to two marvellous Mozart concertos. John Suchet's Album of the Week, 11 August 2014 Lauded as one of today's finest Mozart interpreters, Mitsuko Uchida ...
THERE is no shortage of the music of Mozart in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s back catalogue of recordings, but this new series from the partnership with Piemontesi and Manze of the composer’s ...
Melvyn Tan, fortepiano; Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor (Harmonia Mundi). Melvyn Tan began a period-instruments cycle of the Mozart piano concertos with Roger Norrington on ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 is a typical example of his craft, and of the classical period's best work. Find out exactly why this, one of his latest, is among the best. The piano concertos of ...
Pianist Leonardo Pierdomenico performed with conductor Nicholas McGegan and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the Semifinal Round of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition on Saturday at ...
Mitsuko Uchida's recordings of the solo piano music have established her as a Mozartian of exceptional sensibility, and it is good that she is now giving us a series of the concertos. Her concerts in ...
David Threasher investigates the recorded history of one of the least-known of Mozart’s mature piano concertos, renowned for gaps left in the solo part as the composer worked at speed, and recommends ...