The K595 Concerto stands out on its own. There’s something quite particular about it that started in K503 and K537 – concertos that immediately preceded it and that are already a little bit different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virtuosos André Previn, Zoltán Kocsis and Heidrun Holtmann pay homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performing piano concertos from different periods of the composer's life ("No.1, K.37"; "No.4, K.41"; ...

In 1784, aged 28, Mozart instigated the stream of mature piano concertos that were to rank among his greatest achievements. Taking two concertos written in that year, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet homes in on ...

From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

A few weeks ago I offered an example of Mozart at his most graceful. In this Adagio we see Mozart in his tragic mode, in the second of his two piano concertos in A major. It was written at the peak of ...

Mozart Piano concertos Berlin Philharmonic/Barenboim (Warner Classics 2564 61919-2) (9 CDs) Warner's partnership with Daniel Barenboim is yielding a cornucopia of gold-dust rereleases. Hot on the ...

The great Polish composer Witold Lutosławski once said: ‘I love traditional instruments – though of course they are anachronisms…Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons…It’s ...

Travel with host Scott Yoo and pianist Stewart Goodyear as they visit Yoo’s Festival Mozaic where Goodyear learns to direct an orchestra from the piano while improvising the solos of Mozart’s ...