Pianist Zee Zee performs Rachmaninov with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

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 ...

This short doccie accompanies pianist Nina Schumann as she prepares to perform Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2”. It’s a ...

From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a letter dated July 10 1839, Robert Schumann wrote to his beloved Clara, “You complete me as a composer, as ...

Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...

Rattle conducts Zimerman and a socially distanced London Symphony Orchestra in recordings of clarity and beauty It is easy to forget now, but 2020 should have been the year of Beethoven, when ...

Alongside some of the best-known piano concertos in the repertoire, including Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (16 July & 2 August), Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 (30 July) and Beethoven’s ...