Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor's take on Grieg made the too often over-familiar fresh once again at APO's Thursday concert. Photo / Adrian Malloch Praised by Liszt but slated by Copland, Grieg's Piano ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Vadym Kholodenko, Piano Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Edvard Grieg, Composer Norwegian Radio Orchestra Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Camille Saint-Saëns, ...

Grieg’s Piano Concerto has been tackled by many great pianists, but not all of them strike the right balance between refined pianism and Lisztian zest. Jeremy Nicholas surveys recordings spanning a ...

For proof that chutzpah is as important as competence, even in classical music, consider pianist Jon Kimura Parker’s 1980 debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The Vancouver-born pianist had ...

Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky won the silver medal at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994 (when no gold was awarded), and made his Dublin debut as recently as last January. Given his ...

When he was a child, music critic Tom Manoff heard the music of Edvard Grieg, particularly his piano concerto in A-minor. This piece of music is known as a workhorse. In pop music, it would be ...

Neither the Grieg Concerto nor Prokofiev’s Third is exactly a stranger to the catalogue, but Nikolai Lugansky’s collaboration here with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester refreshes, rejuvenates and, in ...

We sat down with superstar pianist Gabriela Montero before she performed Grieg's majestic piano concerto at Classic FM Live in Cardiff, and she showed us how it's done. It's one of the hardest pieces ...

This is a puzzling set. In 1903 in Paris Edvard Grieg made a set of wax-cylinder recordings of his own piano music – some of the Lyric Pieces, two movements of his E minor sonata – which remain ...

AT THE core of the latest Master Series concerts from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra stood Piers Lane's reading of Grieg's Piano Concerto. This was an honest, sober account of a popular masterpiece.

Step into the timeless beauty of St Giles’ Cathedral, an architectural masterpiece nestled in the heart of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Illuminated by candlelight, this stunning venue sets the stage for a ...