This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...

Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; Three Fantastic Dances; Five Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (Dmitri Shostakovich, piano; Ludovic Vaillant, trumpet; French National Radio Orchestra, Andre ...

The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...

There are huge number of recordings of the Beethoven concertos, so one of the things that distinguishes them is their choice of couplings. Artur Pizarro has picked a selection of solo piano pieces – ...

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 ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Night by Ola Gjeilo and Chopin: Piano ...

Mitsuko Uchida's recordings of the solo piano music have established her as a Mozartian of exceptional sensibility, and it is good that she is now giving us a series of the concertos. Her concerts in ...

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott — who participates in Mozart’s final piano trio at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival on Monday, Aug. 19 — has just released an engaging CD of three of the composer’s ...

If you have come to expect sublime lyricism and melody from Tchaikovsky, his violin concerto will certainly not disappoint. One of the most popular pieces of music ever written, this concerto is ...