Eschenbach at 80 Christoph Eschenbach ... violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis will perform Beethoven’s Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello, with Michael Stern (violinist Isaac ...

According to Mr. Eschenbach, Lang Lang “was born to play Beethoven.” That’s quite a statement ... his talent and joie de vivre — win the day. And the G-major concerto? The piano begins by itself, and ...

Apparently not. At least, not in the case of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. The eventual soloist? One Ludwig van Beethoven. The man clearly had astonishing stamina. In the same concert, he ...

If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then the Piano Concerto No.3 is the man personified! The concerto was ...

Beethoven: 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 ...

And one of the ways he did that was with his piano concertos. A concerto is a piece of music written for an orchestra featuring a soloist. Beethoven wrote five piano concertos. And this weekend ...

2 & 3 (16 July & 2 August), Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 (30 July) and Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 (14 & 8 August), the 2013 BBC Proms invites its audiences to discover some ...

This approach does not really work in the first two concertos: the outset of No 1, for example, is less con brio than it should be, and the choice of Beethoven's third and ... The Fourth, opening ...

The big event of the Orchestra’s fall season, a complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano concertos, is set to feature a different headliner for almost every piece. This wasn’t the original plan ...