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 ...

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 ...

"I have played these pieces my whole professional life and I've taught them and I've heard other people playing them. So, it was really time, in a sense, to do them myself. I felt I was I was ready in ...

The ASO's Beethoven Piano concerto series continues with Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. Opening the night is the vivacious La Clemenza de Tito: Overture by Mozart. Immediately thereafter you will ...

The young Canadian-born pianist Jan Lisiecki filled in for Murray Perahia at a series of concerts in December, 2018. But, rather than playing the same concertos that Perahia had programmed for those ...

A brilliant Beethoven scholar releases his interpretations of the great man's piano concertos. Album of the Weekend, 8-9 February 2014. It’s fair to say that Rudolf Buchbinder is obsessed with ...

These recordings, dating from 1956 57, show Leon Fleisher already at the height of his powers, long before the onset of the debilitating illness that curtailed his dazzling career. One of the few ...

Following a tour last year showcasing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in South Korea, Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, renowned for his interpretations of Beethoven's works, will present all five of ...

1 Review: BBC PROMS: VIVALDI AND BACH, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2025, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH, Royal Albert Hall Immensely ...

From time to time, the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes decides to orientate his professional life towards certain specific projects. Back in 2008 he revisited and reassessed the music of his fellow ...