For the last segment of the 2025 American Piano Awards, Michael Davidman decided on a plan that could be deemed daring. He performed Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op.

Ensemble Masques perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s uncharacteristically uncouth Peasant Cantata and pianist Claire Huagci is the soloist in Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto. Plus the Leipzig ...

Benoit also recently completed his first year as Music Director of the Asia America Symphony. His first piano concerto, The Centaur and the Sphinx, will be completed next summer. The remarkably ...

A brief but grand coda topped off a piece that was, if not as lovable as the piano concerto Grieg composed a year later, at least a fertile field for passionate pianism. The Sonata No. 29, “Sonata ...

Sergei Rachmaninov was a legendary Russian composer and pianist – discover the best Rachmaninov works including ‘Piano Concerto No. 2’. Following the disastrous premiere of his First ...

Some purists might regard these departures from the Urtext as verging on heretical, yet the effect was unexpectedly alluring: Lim’s strategic explorations of the piano’s wide register functioned ...

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Bach transcended existing concerto models by Vivaldi and other Italians by exploring innovative combinations of orchestral instruments. Each of the set’s 14 different instruments, with the ...

Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Each week an expert and enthusiast brings along a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece. They explore ...

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Cara Lieurance talks to the three winners of the Western Michigan University Concerto Competition: bassoonist Ian Christensen, bass trombonist Dustin Moekel, and soprano Emily Barron. They'll perform ...