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Feb 18, 2022 · The brilliant Norwegian pianist has made a name for himself as one of the greatest musicians working today, not least with his recordings of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos with The Mahler Chamber Orchestra. A critic for Gramophone magazine called the series “an extraordinary achievement.” Read more: The 16 best pieces EVER written for piano
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The earliest recording of any section of the Piano Concerto was made in 1908, a mere eight months after Grieg’s death, by his friend Percy Grainger, who made a 10-inch disc for The Gramophone Company of the first-movement cadenza (APR, 4/11 – how he must have kicked himself for smudging the single A natural, seven notes in!).
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1. Nelson Freire pf Gewandhaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly. 'This is the Brahms piano concerto set we’ve been waiting for. Nelson Freire and Riccardo Chailly offer interpretations that triumphantly fuse immediacy and insight, power and lyricism, and incandescent virtuosity that leaves few details unturned, yet always ...
Dec 19, 2023 · 5) Rondo Alla Turca – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Rondo Alla Turca- Mozart. Rondo Alla Turca, also known as the ‘Turkish March,’ is the third movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11. However, it is always heard on its own and considered one of Mozart’s most famous piano pieces. The piece is witty, fast, and playful.
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Jul 28, 2023 · Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat (‘Emperor’) The most famous of Beethoven’s piano concertos and perhaps of all his concertos in general, the ‘Emperor’, like its title suggests, towers above the piano repertoire. From its majestic, march-like opening, through to its serene, heavenly Adagio, and into that joyous finale, it ...
Sep 13, 2021 · No. 4: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (186 performances) With the possible exception of the opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the powerful beginning of Tchaikovsky ’s Piano Concerto No. 1—with its heroic horns and thundering piano octaves—may be the most famous in music. Speaking of famous openings, the concerto was one ...
