Igor Levit, Franz Welser-Möst, and The Cleveland Orchestra conclude their unmissable Beethoven cycle with the First and Fifth piano concertos, demonstrating the extraordinary evolution in the composer ...

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Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto first hits you like a wondrous summer shower, three luminous chords and then a cooling, glistening spray of scales and trills on the piano. A better Southern ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In celebration of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto taking out top place in the 2021 Classic 100, Tamara ...

Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra devoted their concerts last weekend to music composed on a grand scale. The program included Beethoven’s heroic Piano Concerto No. 5 along with ...

Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto balances a flurry of piano trills and athletic runs with a majestic noble character that perfectly suits Yefim Bronfman’s potent but delicate approach, which is ...

Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

Three shorts and a long. It’s the musical equivalent of E = mc2 : on the surface, a deceptively simple formula that yields previously unimaginable results — including many Ludwig van Beethoven himself ...

In 1962, Leonard Bernstein recorded Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, known as the “Emperor,” with the revered classical-school pianist Rudolf Serkin as soloist. Two years later, a would-be assassin ...