Smart repertoire and top soloists have been a hallmark of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra under Carlos Miguel Prieto-- even when the music director isn't at the podium. This week's performances ...
LENOX — Two outstanding Romantic piano concertos are being featured this weekend at Tanglewood: the Piano Concerto No. 2 of Frédéric Chopin, at 8 p.m., July 22, and the Second Piano Concerto of ...
When it comes to standard repertory in classical music, there’s nothing like going to the Three Bs — Bach, Beethoven and Brahms — for some of the greatest works ever written. This weekend, the ...
Stephen Hough proved his keyboard genius in New Orleans on Thursday, blazing to the rarefied summit of Brahms' Second Piano Concerto with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and a young German guest ...
You have to go back to an arcane musicology article from 1957 to find the source of the question, “When is a concerto not a concerto?” The original query, part of a scholarly etymological excavation ...
Even in a subscription season that has already included stars such as Hilary Hahn and Stephen Hough, performance Saturday night with the was a standout, a sterling display of artistry in a monumental ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Johannes Brahms took more than two decades to compose a follow-up to his First Piano Concerto, but audiences at Severance Music Center have only had to wait two years for the sequel.
Brahms' second piano concerto isn’t really a piano concerto. “It is not a usual piano concerto — it is a symphony with solo piano. That [distinction] is very important,” says Vladimir Feltsman, who ...
In October 1988 the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra played its first concert in the new Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. The highlight of the program was Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in ...