British pianist Clare Hammond selects unfairly neglected piano concertos that deserve to be performed more often ...

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 ...

The mini-festival of famous piano concertos that dominates the fourth week of the 2009 Colorado Music Festival is a variation on the Beethoven blast that packed Chautauqua last summer. “I couldn’t ...

Her fingers flying impossibly fast over the keyboard, 23-year-old Jie Chen left no doubt of her technical virtuosity Sunday night at Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium. Chen’s approach to Sergei ...

After the Colorado Music Festival scored a big hit last summer by performing all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in an eight-day span of five concerts, the big question for 2009 became, “What next?” It ...

In the great piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Bartók, the driving impulse is a kind of competition for eloquence. The piano declares itself with fierceness, tenderness or ...

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"; ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered by many to be the greatest composer ever. And his 27 piano concertos may be his finest work. But Mozart had a formula for the 27 and he used it over and over ...

One of the greatest piano concertos ever written actually received insults and rejection when it was new and was called unplayable. After it’s premiere, one scathing review said it would never become ...

One of the greatest piano concertos ever written actually received insults and rejection when it was new and was called unplayable. After its premiere, one scathing review said it would never become ...