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 ...

Andsnes and the MCO’s fresh and sensitive performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos have been an early Proms highlight. But is there such a thing as ‘authentic’ Beethoven? In the glittering wake of ...

The young Canadian-born pianist Jan Lisiecki filled in for Murray Perahia at a series of concerts in December, 2018. But, rather than playing the same concertos that Perahia had programmed for those ...

Beethoven completed five piano concertos in under 20 years, earning considerable amounts of money by performing them himself in concert. Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has performed the ...

"I have played these pieces my whole professional life and I've taught them and I've heard other people playing them. So, it was really time, in a sense, to do them myself. I felt I was I was ready in ...

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 ...

Playing a modern grand, the Dutch pianist opens with Beethoven’s revised (1808) version of the great Fourth Piano Concerto. There are over 30 amendments to the better-known original (1806), mainly in ...

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 ...

Some things were designed to be angular: the Alessi lemon squeezer and catwalk models spring immediately to mind. But Beethoven piano concertos? Mari Kodama performs the first two with husband Kent ...

The ASO's Beethoven Piano concerto series continues with Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. Opening the night is the vivacious La Clemenza de Tito: Overture by Mozart. Immediately thereafter you will ...