Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: ‘Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg ...

Bernard Haitink celebrates his 90th birthday this week, and so we nod to the great conductor with a magnificent recording of his. Here, he conducts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2, Triple Concerto ...

The critically acclaimed pianist Zhang Zuo has performed all of Beethoven’s concertos except one: His No. 2. This weekend, she will check that box when she performs with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra ...

Beethoven completed five piano concertos in under 20 years, earning considerable amounts of money by performing them himself in concert. Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has performed the ...

These recordings, dating from 1956 57, show Leon Fleisher already at the height of his powers, long before the onset of the debilitating illness that curtailed his dazzling career. One of the few ...

When one begins listening to classical music, one of the most logical composers to start with would have to be Ludwig van Beethoven. Even the most novice listener knows Beethoven's most famous four ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s never been a better time to buy a couple of extra tickets to The Cleveland Orchestra. Not one but four stellar soloists took the stage at Severance Music Center on Wednesday, ...

If you like what you heard at the Spokane Symphony or want to hear what you missed, check out these recordings of the performed works: • Beethoven Concerto No. 1: Arthur Rubinstein and the Symphony of ...

That Liszt once compared the second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 to the story of Orpheus taming the Furies is apparently apocryphal: There is no record of Liszt saying or writing such ...

Violinist-composer Franz Clement (1780-1842) has been portrayed in the past as something of a charlatan, an empty virtuoso not noted for his musical depth. Clement, as concertmaster of the Theater an ...