Marc-André Hamelin breathes life into these three Haydn piano concertos. Album of the Week, 8 April 2013. Haydn isn't exactly famous for his piano music. The composer fell foul of a few unfortunate ...

Spirited and virtuosic performances of Haydn's best-known piano concertos. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 15 September 2014. The French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has already won critical acclaim ...

Cellphone ringing has become a commonplace annoyance at concerts around the world. But rarely is such a disruption captured on video — and rarer still is the case when a professional orchestra uploads ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After his successes with Haydn’s piano sonatas the ever-inquisitive Jean-Efflam Bavouzet moves on to the three ...

Compare the openings of Brahms’s two piano concertos and you'd be mistaken for thinking they were by different composers. The earlier work begins with the fiercest of orchestral growls, the piano ...

Bavouzet, who received a 2014 Gramophone magazine award for his Chandos set of Prokofiev’s five piano concertos, here reaffirms his versatility. He clearly identifies with the pieces’ classical ...

Jeremy Denk is more than one of classical music’s most exciting and imaginative pianists. He’s also a writer whose articles about music have appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic and the Guardian, ...

At this stage of her career, every new recording by Martha Argerich is welcome. This is not the first time she has committed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 to disc, but the partnership with conductor ...

As a job application, it didn't go so well for J.S. Bach. In 1721 he dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, the Margrave (Marquess) of Brandenburg and the younger brother of King Frederick I of ...

Though Haydn was one of the greatest masters of good cheer in music, these three keyboard concertos (Nos 3, 4, and 11) straddle the transition from the harpsichord to the piano and often sound ...