It’s one of the most enduringly popular classical music forms ever created, but what makes a piece of music a ‘concerto’, and ...
2 - OCR Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 was composed between 1900 and 1901. It is often described as the greatest piano concerto of all time. The piece has influenced a number of other ...
It’s one of the greatest works in the piano repertoire, and it first captivated listeners 123 years ago today. On this day, 9 November, in 1901 in Moscow, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 premiered ...
The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on consecutive weeks by Denis Kozhukhin. Richard Bratby tells the story of ...
Andràs Schiff, one of the world’s greatest pianists ... Right now, he’s busy at the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition. I notice he refers to looking after the pianos.
Pianist Cho Seong-jin will release a series of albums commemorating the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth in 2025.