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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On January 31, pianist Rudolf Buchbinder's live performance (as pianist and ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Kicking off a two-week season finale focused on the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, Jeffrey Kahane and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra performed not one, but ...

The critically acclaimed pianist Zhang Zuo has performed all of Beethoven’s concertos except one: His No. 2. This weekend, she will check that box when she performs with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) is set to welcome one of the towering figures of classical music, as legendary pianist Rudolf Buchbinder takes centrestage for a landmark Beethoven piano ...

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 ...