Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2 ...

Harriet Smith compares recordings of Bartok's Second Piano Concerto, widely recognised as one of the most technically challenging pieces in the repertoire, and makes a personal recommendation.

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 ...

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Béla Bartók was a superb pianist and his first and last compositions in life were both for his instrument: a waltz he wrote at age 9, and his Piano Concerto No. 3 as he was dying in New York City as a ...

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin Suite and 2nd Piano Concerto. In the second half, there are two great works by Hindemith. The BBC Scottish ...

The most important orchestra in America just ended its season. The last four words of that sentence are mine. The others are the latest opinion of the New York Times, which the marketing department of ...

The exuberant flourish that opens Barber’s Piano Concerto announces a pianist with a big personality. Keith Jarrett is 70 this year and these live recordings from the 1980s represent major additions ...

The adaptable Keith Jarrett is on record questioning classical players’ concept of pulse. “Okay, there are a few exceptions,” he once said, “but everything is usually subordinated to phrasing.” In ...