The UK’s leading scholar on Beethoven has found that the famous opening of the Fifth Symphony began life with a totally different purpose... Classical connoisseur, and music novice alike will ...

Did you know that this Classic 100 had the most entries composed by women ever: 11 works by seven different composers! ABC Classic's Ria Andriani took at look into this wonderful stat and the ...

What is the most popular classical music? Eight years ago Manhattan’s radio station WQXR (which plays no jazz) polled its listeners, found Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...

The recital, “Finale in C,” is the final recital in Wei’s “Complete Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Concert Series,” which ...

Cascavelle has reissued Aldo Ciccolini’s 1995‑99 Beethoven cycle for the Italian Bongiovanni label (it also appeared on Nuova Era) as a space-saving box-set. While most cyclical presentations follow a ...

TEN years ago, pianist Peter Serkin made a Beethoven recording that included the “Moonlight” Sonata and the “Appassionata.” Moonlight was evidently on, or in, his mind, since even the agitated and ...

Having followed with interest and admiration Andras Schiff’s slowly maturing Decca cycle of the Mozart piano concertos, a cycle that proved to be consistently interesting because it is built on a ...

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 ...

(CBS) - Stop what you're doing right now and prepare to take in some classical music, culture and cool. One of our favorites, The Piano Guys, are back with an amazing hybrid of OneRepublic's "Secrets" ...