Watch Emmanuel Ax and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5 live from the Sydney Opera House. The title ‘The Emperor’ seems appropriate for Beethoven’s majestic final ...

In the autumn of 1957, Walter Legge staged a Beethoven festival in honour of Otto Klemperer at the Royal Festival Hall. All nine symphonies were performed and the five piano concertos with Claudio ...

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Stormy, emotionally charged harmonic shifts. Flowing classical lyricism interrupted by lightning bolt chords. Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios.

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The Music No. 5 is the last of Beethoven’s piano concertos, and the grandest. Ever the innovator, Beethoven begins with flourishes on the piano, which however falls silent until it re-enters in ...

Getting a head start on the impending Beethoven 2020 festivities, Canada's Jan Lisiecki has today surprised us with Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, his fifth ...

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St Petersburg-born and London-based, Sudbin brings delicacy and crystalline articulation to these concertos, creating a sense of classical grace rather than romantic scale. This is not barnstorming ...

As Beethoven withdrew the dedication of the ‘Eroica’ symphony in a rage when Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, he would not have liked the title by which his fifth piano concerto is now known. It’s ...

Nobody could accuse Yevgeny Sudbin of being hidebound in his choice of repertoire. His previous releases for BIS have ranged from Scarlatti and Haydn to Tchaikovsky, Medtner and Rachmaninoff, and now ...