Miss Lily Dumont's performance of Beethoven's fourth piano concerto last Friday demonstrated nicely how amatcurish professionals can be. With the collusion of Henry Swoboda's ill-prepared ...

now that Gilels is gone he is king—in Beethoven, at least. There may be more individual and idiosyncratic interpreters of the music but there is none whose command, at best, is sovereign. Pollini's ...

(Few pianists today lead from the keyboard as Beethoven did when presenting his concertos.) There are moments when one wishes for greater tension in the music-making, as in the otherwise beautiful ...

Even Beethoven's committed friends and supporters ... The 1808 concert included two symphonies, No. 5 and No. 6 ("Pastoral"), the Fourth Piano Concerto, two movements from the Mass in C, a concert ...

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 - OCR Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1 was composed in 1795 and was first performed in Vienna, Austria, by Beethoven as the solo pianist. The piece was ...

then Ferruccio Busoni’s 1904 Piano Concerto could be the test-piece. It’s not only fiendishly difficult to play, it’s also very long – just over 70 minutes, compared to, say, Beethoven’s ...