Yuja Wang Plays the Rachmaninov Concerto #3
If you are a music lover, then you likely said: Oh yes! I know the music and I know the performer. I listened to them yesterday, and I was thrilled. Here is the music with …
Concerto Archive
Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto
Sibelius’s D-minor Violin Concerto towers as an icy summit in the instrument’s literature. But Sibelius and the violin are connected in other ways, too. He aspired to become a violin virtuoso himself but unfortunately fixed …
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
Mozart wrote this concerto shortly before his death, in 1791, for the clarinetist Anton Stadler, the Austrian clarinet and basset horn player. The concerto was given its premiere by Stadler in Prague on October 16, …
Schumann’s Piano concerto in A-Minor
The Schumann concerto began life as a Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in one movement, completed by Schumann in May 1841. Clara Schumann’s importance to the Concerto’s gestation should not be underestimated. Not only did …
Martha Argerich and Maria Joao Pires Play Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos
Music for more than one piano and orchestra was rare in Mozart’s day, although the form would seem to be natural for a composer whose youthful career featured his own keyboard virtuosity combined with that …