Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 has a reputation. It’s one of the most demanding works ever written for piano because it's relentless in its intensity. Stewart Goodyear is a phenomenal pianist who ...

This year’s 2026 Preview consists of all the entertainment — from movies to books to art shows — that Vulture writers and editors are excited to consume in the New Year. Below, our classical-music ...

Last Saturday night, the New York Philharmonic played a concert splashed with color. It began with a work by Lera Auerbach, written in 2010 or so. (The history of this work is slightly complicated.) I ...

Conductor Dominic Grier, leader Simon Hewitt Jones, violin Charlotte Spruit. (Ansel Chaloner-Hughes has been unwell; new piece ‘Equinox’ incomplete; premiere due today postponed) Charlie Barber, ...

Powell Hall looked sold out for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Saturday, November 22 branded around The Firebird, Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 composition for ballet, and it was a deep ...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns opens with an extended piano solo. Usually, the orchestra plays long before the piano enters. Perhaps his most popular concerto, the ...

Nearly 70 years after making his Hollywood debut, the legendary composer and conductor John Williams has a new musical composition to his name. At age 93, the five-time Oscar winner—best-known for ...

Did you know that this Classic 100 had the most entries composed by women ever: 11 works by seven different composers! ABC Classic's Ria Andriani took at look into this wonderful stat and the ...

The prodigious South Korean talent won 2022’s Van Cliburn piano competition with this performance; his version deserves a place alongside Argerich and Rachmaninov himself As soon as the 2022 Van ...

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has performed with the world's most renowned orchestras on grand stages. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about his set at the Tiny Desk. The pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet ...

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil, are good fits for this theatrical piano concerto This is a passion project for Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who has wanted to record Aram ...