We count down the 21 greatest piano concertos - the finest works ever written for piano with orchestra ...

Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...

Brahms composed his first piano concerto in 1858, and premiered the work in Hannover the following year. Although nowadays Brahms is often remembered for his full-blooded, large-scale works, at the ...

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 ...

Both of Brahms’s piano concertos are gargantuan works. At nearly fifty minutes in duration, this one lasts longer than any other major Romantic piano concerto by quite some stretch. And talking of ...

Daniel Barenboim and Gustavo Dudamel with the Staatskapelle Berlin, performing two great works by Brahms. Two great maestros, with a nearly 40 year age gap, combine forces with the Berlin State ...

Brahms planned his First Piano Concerto as a sonata for two pianos, but the music’s stormy grandeur soon needed bigger forces. He dreamed of composing a symphony, but the Beethoven’s shadow loomed too ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Lars Vogt, Conductor, Piano Royal Northern Sinfonia (25) Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G.F. Handel Lars Vogt, Conductor, Piano Royal Northern Sinfonia Hot ...

Concerto for Nine Instruments Pina Napolitano, Piano Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra Modestas Pitrenas, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Pina Napolitano, Piano Lithuanian ...

Brahms' Piano Concerto No2 is a big, unruly piece, but Yuja Wang's playing was so dazzling that it even outshone her gown, which shimmered like a chandelier. The piece has a wealth of ideas and ...

Time was when Daniel Barenboim tore into Brahms’s “First Piano Concerto” as if he was in an Olympian fury. In this performance he is subdued, pensively rhapsodic, cautious in the face of impending ...