CLEVELAND, Ohio --Move over dueling banjos and pianos – dueling baroque concertos are taking center stage in early August. Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra is presenting “Fencing Match,” the premiere ...

American composer Nico Muhly was a big fan of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud when they met via social media through their mutual friend, choreographer-dancer Benjamin Millepied. Resulting from that ...

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 ...

In May 2014 I reviewed the first volume in a new series of recordings of Schumann’s concertos and piano trios. I described the disc as “ultra-special” and hailed the project as “a great series in the ...

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The celebrated French trumpeter Maurice André loved to claim that the lung power required to play the trumpet as he did was sufficient to inflate a lorry tyre! The fragrant Alison Balsom looks too ...

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra completes its short, diverse series of discs featuring Mozart's concertos with performances of his final two works in the genre. Andreas Staier's account of the B flat ...

Franz Liszt – and others who followed him – used to be criticized for making piano arrangements of symphonies, songs and other pieces not originally meant for the piano. Severe-minded types considered ...

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