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 ...

Watch Emmanuel Ax and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Piano Concertos 3 and 4 at the Sydney Opera House. Beethoven composed his 3rd and 4th Piano Concertos between 1800 and 1806 – a ...

After completing this concerto in 1806, the composer struggled to find anyone to perform it. So the work sat on a shelf, gathering dust, until its public premiere on 22 December 1808. Just imagine ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

John O'Conor (piano), London Symphony Orchestra/Andreas Delfs Telarc 2CD-80704 (2 CDs for the price of one)****: For the completion of John O'Conor's recordings of all five Beethoven piano concertos, ...

St Petersburg-born and London-based, Sudbin brings delicacy and crystalline articulation to these concertos, creating a sense of classical grace rather than romantic scale. This is not barnstorming ...

Nobody could accuse Yevgeny Sudbin of being hidebound in his choice of repertoire. His previous releases for BIS have ranged from Scarlatti and Haydn to Tchaikovsky, Medtner and Rachmaninoff, and now ...