From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on ...

Her fingers flying impossibly fast over the keyboard, 23-year-old Jie Chen left no doubt of her technical virtuosity Sunday night at Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium. Chen’s approach to Sergei ...

In the great piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Bartók, the driving impulse is a kind of competition for eloquence. The piano declares itself with fierceness, tenderness or ...

The K595 Concerto stands out on its own. There’s something quite particular about it that started in K503 and K537 – concertos that immediately preceded it and that are already a little bit different ...

When I was a student at the Paris Conservatoire, I started by learning this piece, not Brahms’s First Concerto. Many people were more attracted initially to the latter, maybe because it has a ...

After the Colorado Music Festival scored a big hit last summer by performing all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in an eight-day span of five concerts, the big question for 2009 became, “What next?” It ...

Stephen Hough is a famous polymath. He teaches pianists at the Juilliard School in New York, and he’s produced a best-selling iPad app exposing the mechanics of Liszt’s great Piano Sonata in B Minor.

The mini-festival of famous piano concertos that dominates the fourth week of the 2009 Colorado Music Festival is a variation on the Beethoven blast that packed Chautauqua last summer. “I couldn’t ...

One of the greatest piano concertos ever written actually received insults and rejection when it was new and was called unplayable. After its premiere, one scathing review said it would never become ...