Late in life, Arthur Rubinstein, one of a series of legendary musicians who influenced Daniel Barenboim, gave a number of programs made up of famous piano concertos. Thursday night at Orchestra Hall, ...

Stormy, emotionally charged harmonic shifts. Flowing classical lyricism interrupted by lightning bolt chords. Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios.

With typical assertiveness, Beethoven once asked, “With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength?” You might, indeed, measure the strength of his genius with a number of other great composers.

Orchestra Iowa has announced its 2026-27 season, highlighting a mix of classical masterworks, popular film scores and ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’re one of the greatest guitarists of all time. You want a song that really shows what you can do. You want a tune that demonstrates why you’re considered a Rock God. You want a song like “Voodoo ...

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 ...

Pianist Inon Barnatan returns to New Jersey Symphony stages to perform all five of Beethoven's piano concertos across two programs and four performances in one weekend, March 31-April 3. Music ...

One of the things that makes great composers great is their ability to rack up any number of masterpieces in a given genre – several symphonies, for example, or concertos, string quartets, piano ...

In his first recording as conductor, Pekka Kuusisto is insightful and in control, and Vilde Frang brings electricity to both concertos There are two violinists at work on this recording, and it ...