What was good for Rachmaninov two years ago and for Tchaikovsky during the early days of 2014 looks to be very good for Mozart at the dawn of 2015. Seattle Symphony’s emerging tradition of immersing ...

Almost a year to the day since her last appearance at Severance Hall with The Cleveland Orchestra, Mitsuko Uchida returned last weekend to lead and solo in two Mozart piano concertos, revisiting ...

What’s the most popular piece in classical music? Classical radio services periodically seek to find that out via listener polls. When they do, it’s not surprising to find Beethoven symphonies, ...

Conductor Laurence Equilbey picks seven astounding musical depictions of nature on the cinematic screen ...

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 ...

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 – ...

A couple of times each season the Chicago Symphony Orchestra slims down to an ensemble of chamber music proportions and addresses repertory not usually presented on subscription concerts at Orchestra ...

Mozart Wind Concertos by Irena Grafenauer, Francois Leleux, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductors Colin Davis and Gunter Wand. This is a bright and uplifting recording of two perennial ...

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 ...

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 ...

We count down the 21 greatest piano concertos - the finest works ever written for piano with orchestra ...