Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases, joined by composer Soosan Lolavar and pianist Joanna MacGregor, who surveys recordings of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 and picks her favourite.

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 ...

From principal oboist Mary Lynch’s reedy mastery to the politely timed coughing of its die-hard patrons (a mini-explosion between movements), the Seattle Symphony holds an eternal soft spot in my ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

Leif-Ove Andnes begins his cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos, or The Beethoven Journey as Sony Classical insists on calling it, by pairing the two works in C: the major-key first concerto, and the ...

Three pieces of music with a magical and mythical air, conjured up by conductor Lionel Bringuier and The BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Paul Dukas's Sorcerer’s Apprentice - immortalized in the ...

Star Wars composer John Williams is named most popular living composer in Ultimate Classic FM Hall of Fame, which combines 20 years' worth of polling data from annual Hall of Fame poll. Rachmaninov’s ...

Alice Sara Ott performs the blistering final movement of Grieg's Piano Concerto, with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and ...

This year the BBC Proms highlights some fantastic and extraordinary concertos, musical works for an instrumental soloist and an orchestra or ensemble. From Shostakovich to Mozart, and Vivaldi to new ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Taking a cue from Mozart, András Schiff appeared with the New York Philharmonic as both piano soloist and conductor. By Joshua Barone There was a time ...

John Adams: City Noir, Saxophone Concerto St. Louis Symphony/David Robertson, with Timothy McAllister (saxophone) (Nonesuch) There's a lot going on in John Adams's City Noir. Ideas come thick and fast ...