Marc-André Hamelin breathes life into these three Haydn piano concertos. Album of the Week, 8 April 2013. Haydn isn't exactly famous for his piano music. The composer fell foul of a few unfortunate ...

Cellphone ringing has become a commonplace annoyance at concerts around the world. But rarely is such a disruption captured on video — and rarer still is the case when a professional orchestra uploads ...

Spirited and virtuosic performances of Haydn's best-known piano concertos. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 15 September 2014. The French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has already won critical acclaim ...

Franz Joseph Haydn was a prolific composer of symphonies, chamber music and vocal works but wrote relatively few concertos. Experts have authenticated only three for keyboard, and they have generally ...

Jeremy Denk is more than one of classical music’s most exciting and imaginative pianists. He’s also a writer whose articles about music have appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic and the Guardian, ...

Bavouzet, who received a 2014 Gramophone magazine award for his Chandos set of Prokofiev’s five piano concertos, here reaffirms his versatility. He clearly identifies with the pieces’ classical ...

Compare the openings of Brahms’s two piano concertos and you'd be mistaken for thinking they were by different composers. The earlier work begins with the fiercest of orchestral growls, the piano ...

Yet more Britten – the composer’s centenary has unleashed a welcome flood of new recordings and reissues. Candida Thompson’s Amsterdam Sinfonietta disc is pretty special – vibrant, incisive and ...

The Australian Haydn Ensemble, acclaimed for their fresh and vibrant performances of the music of the Classical era, bring their deep knowledge of historical performance techniques to Beethoven’s ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After his successes with Haydn’s piano sonatas the ever-inquisitive Jean-Efflam Bavouzet moves on to the three ...