Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Today it’s one of the most well-loved violin concertos, but it wasn’t so popular at first... Violinist ...

Andsnes and the MCO’s fresh and sensitive performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos have been an early Proms highlight. But is there such a thing as ‘authentic’ Beethoven? In the glittering wake of ...

Jane Jones explores the drama that reveals the piano as the poet. If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under Richard Tognetti the ACO has established itself as world-class and this 50th anniversary live recording of these two great concertos are a wonderful souvenir of a remarkable group The Guardian’s ...

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 ...

A piano concerto Beethoven was working on when he was 18 years old premiered Feb. 1 in Rotterdam. Reconstructed by Dutch musicologist Cees Nieuwenhuizen, the work was found in 2004 among a group of ...

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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 ...

Five concertos, four concerts and three cities. It was quite a weekend for the New Jersey Symphony and pianist Inon Barnatan. Hearing—or playing—one of Beethoven’s piano concertos in a given day or ...