Mozart: Piano Concertos in C Major K 503 & D Minor K 466, Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra Mozart, cond Claudio Abbado, DG 479 1033, £14.99 Back in the Sixties, the first recording that Claudio ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered by many to be the greatest composer ever. And his 27 piano concertos may be his finest work. But Mozart had a formula for the 27 and he used it over and over ...

Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...

Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

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 ...

If you like easy-listening Mozart or have an affection for performances that are light or pretty in manner, then Francesco Piemontesi’s new coupling of the Concertos in C, K503, and in D, K537, is not ...

Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466: Allegro, Romance, Rondo Presto; Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: Allegro, Adagio, Allegro Assai. Jacques Loussier: piano ...

It is a score draw at the moment in the match between traditional and period-instrument recordings of Mozart’s piano concertos. Mitsuko Uchida falls in the former camp and the last in her recent ...

On Sunday afternoon, March 24, Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida, currently Artist in Residence at Cal Performances, performed two Mozart Piano Concertos at Zellerbach Hall. The concertos were No. 17 in ...

Though the concerto that followed it was a bigger hit, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor from 1785 is still a classic example of just how prolific and formidable the young composer's talents ...