The Music No. 5 is the last of Beethoven’s piano concertos, and the grandest. Ever the innovator, Beethoven begins with flourishes on the piano, which however falls silent until it re-enters in ...

The ASO's Beethoven Piano concerto series comes to a triumphant end with Beethoven's Piano Concertos No. 5 "The Emperor". Opening the night is Schubert's Symphony No. 5, a modest work for small ...

Watch Emmanuel Ax and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5 live from the Sydney Opera House. The title ‘The Emperor’ seems appropriate for Beethoven’s majestic final ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If two musicians could put a new shine on Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, the “Emperor”, it was a good bet they ...

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 ...

This is the final stop in Leif Ove Andsnes’s Beethoven Journey. Nowadays Andsnes prefers to concentrate on specific projects rather than trailing from venue to venue with different repertoire, and for ...

After completing this concerto in 1806, the composer struggled to find anyone to perform it. So the work sat on a shelf, gathering dust, until its public premiere on 22 December 1808. Just imagine ...

At this stage of her career, every new recording by Martha Argerich is welcome. This is not the first time she has committed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 to disc, but the partnership with conductor ...

Beethoven, who will again be a significant presence in the San Diego Symphony’s just-announced 2012-13 Jacobs Masterworks series, means different things to different people. For the symphony’s ...

Music of Beethoven ushers in the first concert of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra this weekend. His third symphony, The 'Eroica', and the 4th Piano Concerto, with Alon Goldstein, will be performed ...