As Blu-ray is to VHS, Yuja Wang is to most other pianists. This 22-year-old phenom’s performance Wednesday at Davies Symphony Hall was a dazzler, leaving nearly 2,700 concertgoers playing the role of ...

She’s no flash in the pan. All of 25, pianist Yuja Wang has been doing this for a good eight years now — blowing away audiences with her shazam performances of colossal works. Case in point: her ...

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Beethoven completed five piano concertos in under 20 years, earning considerable amounts of money by performing them himself in concert. Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has performed the ...

In this high-wire, high-contrast pairing of Prokofiev's manically concussive Piano Concerto No. 2 and Ravel's buoyant Piano Concerto in G Major, fast-rising Chopin and Liszt virtuoso Yundi Li expands ...

Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto has never been more popular but for her second concerto collaboration on disc the young Armenian-born Nareh Arghamanyan has come up with a refreshingly individual take ...

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, ...

When Thomas Søndergård was named music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2022, there was some curiosity among audiences as to whether this Dane would bring us more music from his native country, ...