Classical concert lore is full of great pinch-hitting stories. For example, stardom found a young Leonard Bernstein when he stepped in for conductor Bruno Walter on short notice, and teenage pianist ...

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with Jeffrey Kahane, February 28-March 3. Hans Graf returns to NJSO stages to conduct the program, which also features ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A relaxed understanding born of a long career helped pianist Garrick Ohlsson bring easy grace and Proto-Romantic sensibility to Beethoven’s Second and Fourth Piano Concertos with the ...

On Wednesday evening in Symphony Hall, Benjamin Zander led Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, and Jonathan Biss appeared as soloist in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto A large and enthusiastic crowd ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is the only non-Mexican composer on the program for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s “Beethoven & Blue Jeans” concerts this weekend at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance ...

The Usher Hall's highly-acclaimed Sunday Classics programmes continues after stunning performances from the likes of the Brussels Philharmonic and Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Now rising Russian ...

Mozart and Beethoven rub shoulders with American composer Charles Ives at Saturday’s performance by the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Ives’ brief, curious essay “The Unanswered Question” serves as a ...

What’s a little less Lang Lang and a little less Haydn in the over-the-top final weeks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s exceedingly generous centennial season? Gustavo Dudamel had planned a ...

Five concertos, four concerts and three cities. It was quite a weekend for the New Jersey Symphony and pianist Inon Barnatan. Hearing—or playing—one of Beethoven’s piano concertos in a given day or ...