Yefim Bronfman, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Sony). Rare are the performers who make the necessary adjustments from the barbarism of Bartok’s first two piano ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The world's best-selling pianist, Lang Lang, ...

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 ...

Music has a life-giving force and uncanny power of resilience. Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was written on what many thought the composer’s deathbed, but bringing it into the world gave the ...

Daniel Barenboim began his second week of subscription concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday at Symphony Center with an odd coupling of composers more closely associated with his ...

I wish the Detroit Symphony Orchestra played more music by Bela Bartok, the Hungarian master whose incomparable masterpieces rank with the most formally imaginative and emotionally fulfilling scores ...

If we are accustomed to hearing Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on discs of Debussy, Ravel and Haydn, here he makes a radical move from those intimate, refined worlds to the raw dynamism of Bartók’s three piano ...