Almost a year to the day since her last appearance at Severance Hall with The Cleveland Orchestra, Mitsuko Uchida returned last weekend to lead and solo in two Mozart piano concertos, revisiting ...

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will perform a night of classical music in Basingstoke. Conducted by Kati ...

A celebration of some of Mozart's greatest woodwind concertos, in Claudio Abbado's 80th birthday year. Drive Featured Album, 22 April 2013. If this album is anything to go by, there's a reason ...

Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

What was good for Rachmaninov two years ago and for Tchaikovsky during the early days of 2014 looks to be very good for Mozart at the dawn of 2015. Seattle Symphony’s emerging tradition of immersing ...

A couple of times each season the Chicago Symphony Orchestra slims down to an ensemble of chamber music proportions and addresses repertory not usually presented on subscription concerts at Orchestra ...

One of the many cool things about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Mozart Festival, which runs through Feb. 5, is the opportunity it offers orchestra members to shine in the solo spotlight. So often ...

Mozart: Piano Concertos in C Major K 503 & D Minor K 466, Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra Mozart, cond Claudio Abbado, DG 479 1033, £14.99 Back in the Sixties, the first recording that Claudio ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the Oxford Philomusica's Mozart anniversary concerts during the summer, so it was a great pleasure to catch up with their complete Mozart Piano Concerto series ...

On period instruments the wind concertos of the classical era take on a different personality. The plush uniformity of modern instruments is replaced by solo playing of quirky charisma. In Mozart’s ...