Like buses, three new recordings of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto have appeared at once. The most startling of them, with Grigory Sokolov as the soloist, is in fact not exactly new; Sokolov no ...

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The new disc gets the concertos the wrong way around – stylistically and chronologically, the Triple Concerto should follow the C minor, not precede it – but that’s readily amended. As to the ...

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Electrifying performances from a stellar pianist. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 3 February 2014. Still in his early 30s, Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed as potentially one of the greatest pianists ...

The San Francisco Symphony performs the debut of the piece written for the Chinese superstar pianist and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, a longtime friend and supporter of the composer’s work. David ...

Pianistic fireworks from the Turkish maestro. John Suchet's Album of the Week, 10 March 2014. The pianist and composer Fazil Say has been exciting audiences and critics alike for more than 25 years.

The classical music repertoire contains hundreds of works for piano and orchestra, and yet we tend to hear only a tiny fraction of them in concert halls today: the familiar piano concertos by Brahms, ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 Martin Helmchen, Piano Berlin German Symphony Orchestra Andrew Manze, Conductor Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra Martin Helmchen, Piano ...