These concertos span Rachmaninov's career, from his farewell to Russia (the piano concerto No 1 of 1891) to his uneasy exile in the new world, where he encountered 1920s jazz and big bands but wrote ...

As if to avoid shining too much limelight on the individual – hard in a concerto, by its show-off nature, but no doubt advisable in Soviet years – Shostakovich gives piano and orchestra well-balanced ...

The piano concerto is one of classical music’s most thrilling and expressive forms – a fusion of lyrical beauty, dazzling virtuosity, and dramatic dialogue between soloist and orchestra. Across ...

Watch American pianist Emmanuel Ax and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Piano Concertos 1 and 2 from the Sydney Opera House. Although published after Piano Concerto No 1, Beethoven’s ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Glass, like Bach before him, ...