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5 days ago · Mozart’s Triple Concerto opens the album. Here, the orchestral introduction sets the stage, but this one feels restrained. The strings aim for elegance but lack presence and vitality compared to the Casadesus family with Ormandy. A similar issue arises when the pianos enter. While precise and clear, they lack the music’s inherent sprightliness.
5 days ago · The disc also includes Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 for Three Pianos and Orchestra, performed uniquely on three different types of keyboard instruments - by Robert Levin (tangent piano), Ya-Fei Chuang (fortepiano), and Laurence Cummings (harpsichord).
3 days ago · Info for Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18. The pianist Martha Argerich gave her first concert at the age of four, performed with orchestras at the age of eight and has been regarded as one of the best pianists in the world since winning the competitions in Bolzano and Geneva at the age of 16 and the Chopin Competition eight years later.
5 days ago · Recent milestones in his career encompass a performance of Carlos Chávez’s Piano Concerto at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium with The Orchestra Now, a debut at Mostly Mozart, and a critically acclaimed recording of Richard Strauss and Kurt Leimer’s music with the Bern Symphony Orchestra and Mario Venzago for Schweizer Fonogramm.
4 days ago · That’s Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto, one of the most difficult ever written. Josef Hoffmann, for whom it was composed, actually refused to perform it. He had smaller hands, which makes it especially challenging, and can even risk injury if the pianist plays large chords where the keys are far apart.
5 days ago · Off to the lovely Stoller Hall to see the fabulous Manchester Camerata, this time a programme of Mozart as part of the Mozart, Made in Manchester series, conducted by their Music Director Gábor Takács-Nagy and featuring Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on piano. This performance also featured students from Chetham’s School of Music and Camerata 360 ...
14 hours ago · Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15, is a remarkable work that showcases the composer’s early prowess and innovative spirit. Composed between 1795 and 1800, it was dedicated to one of Beethoven’s patrons, Baron Gottfried van Swieten. Although it is labeled as his first piano concerto, it ...
