Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered by many to be the greatest composer ever. And his 27 piano concertos may be his finest work. But Mozart had a formula for the 27 and he used it over and over ...

From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

Pianist Maria João Pires long ago earned a reputation for eccentricity, withdrawing from public view for extended periods and at one point retreating to a farm in her native Portugal, whence she ...

Rafal Blechacz (piano) Royal Concertgebouw/Jerzy Semkow Deutsche Grammophon 477 8088 *** Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz, winner of the 2005 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, here tackles Chopin's two piano ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Look no further for the events marking the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. As Gewandhauskapellmeister ...

Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...

"I have played these pieces my whole professional life and I've taught them and I've heard other people playing them. So, it was really time, in a sense, to do them myself. I felt I was I was ready in ...

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on consecutive weeks by Denis Kozhukhin. Richard Bratby tells the story of their ...

Sometimes old recipes, newly tweaked, can yield astonishing results. Consider the concerto: It might be a 400-year-old formula, calling for a soloist to perform with — and often battle against — an ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The music most people associate with György Ligeti is his orchestral piece Atmosphères, used in Stanley Kubrick ...