Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

On period instruments the wind concertos of the classical era take on a different personality. The plush uniformity of modern instruments is replaced by solo playing of quirky charisma. In Mozart’s ...

The Clarinet Concerto in A, K622, completed in 1791, the year of Mozart’s death, marked his farewell to instrumental music. It was also the first clarinet concerto to be written by a major composer – ...

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 is a typical example of his craft, and of the classical period's best work. Find out exactly why this, one of his latest, is among the best. The piano concertos of ...

Mozart: Piano Concertos in C Major K 503 & D Minor K 466, Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra Mozart, cond Claudio Abbado, DG 479 1033, £14.99 Back in the Sixties, the first recording that Claudio ...

This is authentic Kissin, if not authentic Mozart as we have come to know him via fleet-footed, period-instrument performances. In his first recording as pianist-conductor, the Russian virtuoso, ...

Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 9 Tadeusz Karolak, Conductor Viviana Sofronitsky, Piano Musica Antiqua Collegium Varsoviense Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.

Ahead of a special livestreaming partnership with Gramophone, Jack Pepper introduces one of Hungary’s rising star orchestras… Presenting over 80 concerts a year, including 25 new pieces annually, the ...