Greatest piano concertos

Gramophone Thursday, February 3, An introduction to 10 of the greatest piano concertos — from Mozart to Rachmaninov — with highly recommended recordings. Read more on Mozart and discover the essential recordings.

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Read more on Beethoven and discover the essential recordings. Nelson Freire and Riccardo Chailly offer interpretations that triumphantly fuse immediacy and insight, power and lyricism, and incandescent virtuosity that leaves few details unturned, yet always with the big picture in clear sight Read more on Brahms and discover the essential recordings.

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To find the perfect subscription for you, simply visit: gramophone. Read more on Schumann and discover the essential recordings. Read more on Grieg and discover the essential recordings. Lyrical and insinuating, to a degree her performance seems to be made of the tumultuous elements themselves, of fire and ice, rain and sunshine Read more on Tchaikovsky and discover the essential recordings.

But I'm not sure I could name anyone who has so satisfyingly combined all those qualities, who has given us such a rocket-launched recapitulation in the first movement, such circus-routine vividness in the following variations Prokofiev grew up in a Russia where 'circusization of the arts' was one of the 'in' concepts , or such monstrous, hyperbolic fairy-tale imagery in the finale, and all done with the most engaging reckless abandon Read more on Prokofiev and discover the essential recordings.

His trills in the first movement of the G major Concerto are to die for, his passagework in the finale crystal-clear, never hectic, always stylish. Read more on Ravel and discover the essential recordings. Not here though