Composers of film scores who aspire to the concert hall have it rough. Fans from the multiplex want tunes they can hum, while classical-music aficionados tend to regard composers who earn studio ...
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 ...
Mozart performed his 1788 Piano Concerto No. 26 at the Coronation of Leopold the 2nd in 1790. His publisher then attached the nickname the “Coronation” Concerto as if Mozart had written the two year ...
Get ready to be mesmerised at Kolkata’s majestic Durbar Hall at Victoria Memorial, as Alliance Française du Bengale and Victoria Memorial Hall bring you ‘Mozart & Beethoven: Famous Piano Concertos’.
Ella Xu, Grand Prize Winner of the Philadelphia International Music Festival Spring 2023 Virtual Concerto Competition, captivated audiences with her performance of Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto ...
If you’ve ever watched the film Amadeus, you’ve heard Celia Nicklin playing the oboe with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. She’s also performed with the Beatles and many of the UK’s most ...
There are brilliant interpretations of “the Mozarts” on old and on modern horn. The recordings by Dennis Brain with Karajan and the Philharmonia remain, at least on the scene I grew up in, the ...
In this week's Gramophone Podcast, the horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill joins Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about his beautiful new recording of Mozart's horn concertos, released today on the BIS ...
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra and oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk on Thursday at the Kennedy Center. (Scott Suchman/Kennedy Center) Review by Michael Andor Brodeur “I didn’t ...
Winners of Miami’s Concerto Competition and the Composition Competition will be featured in the Miami University Symphony Orchestra concert Wednesday, May 1, at Hall Auditorium. "We are immensely ...
An oboe stole the show. “The Four Seasons,” a collection of violin concerti from Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, was the headlining piece for the New Jersey Symphony’s performance this weekend. But ...