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.

Musicologists puzzled over a lost Ludwig van Beethoven concerto for decades, ever since the 1960s discovery of the sketch of a single movement among the composer's papers. Now, two Dutch Beethoven ...

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 ...

When one begins listening to classical music, one of the most logical composers to start with would have to be Ludwig van Beethoven. Even the most novice listener knows Beethoven's most famous four ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

Beethoven’s iconic piano concertos are the subject of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s two-day “Beethoven Piano Concerto Marathon ...

After completing this concerto in 1806, the composer struggled to find anyone to perform it. So the work sat on a shelf, gathering dust, until its public premiere on 22 December 1808. Just imagine ...

Dmytro Choni, 28, of Ukraine performs Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Allegro con brio, with conductor Marin Alsop and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, during the final round of the 16th ...

Beethoven's Triple Concerto is seldom played today - incomprehensibly so, said Cem Mansur, who has often conducted it and loves the unusual mix of a piano trio and orchestra. With this unconventional ...

German violinist Anton Steck couples the Beethoven Violin Concerto with a work by the little-known violinist and composer Franz Alexander Pössinger, who appears to have been involved in editing the ...