Brahms composed his first piano concerto in 1858, and premiered the work in Hannover the following year. Although nowadays Brahms is often remembered for his full-blooded, large-scale works, at the ...

The title of this glorious concerto is another example of musical cataloguing triumphing over historical fact. Far from being Chopin’s first piano concerto, this is actually his second. It was ...

Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky's famed 1812 Overture was first performed, outdoors, at the base of the majestic Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. His beloved ballet, the Nutcracker, was introduced ...

It's among the most popular works in the entire classical repertoire, a favourite of concert pianists headlining with symphony orchestras the world over. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, ...

The classical music repertoire contains hundreds of works for piano and orchestra, and yet we tend to hear only a tiny fraction of them in concert halls today: the familiar piano concertos by Brahms, ...

Is Brahms’s music classical or romantic? Paul Lewis is clear-headed about the answer. His playing in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 disdains romantic heroics in favour of poise and proportion, fine ...

Melodies can be created by using different features which can affect such things as to how it moves and how it is articulated. Piano Concerto No.1 includes: ...

Winner of the People’s Choice award and overall 2nd prizewinner of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, Rem Urasin’s brilliant performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto catapulted ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where John Wilson goes, adventurous listeners would do well to follow. Showing an eclectic taste, Wilson has ...

Hyperion’s much-admired Romantic Piano Concerto series, launched in 1992, is currently at 63 volumes and counting. Romantic violin and cello concertos followed, and now, stepping backwards in time, it ...

Pianist Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite recording of Bartok's Piano Concerto No 2, and Andrew Matthews-Owen picks some of the week's best new classical releases. Andrew Matthews-Owen joins ...