The piano was Johannes Brahms’ instrument of choice, and it’s clear from his many compositions featuring the piano that he knew the instrument inside out. But when it came time to compose a violin ...

Re-discover Mozart's piano concertos with these intimate chamber orchestra recordings. Album of the Week, 4 March 2013. Combining the intimacy of a string quintet with the power of an orchestral piece ...

January 24, 2006 • In the last installment of the Must-Have Mozart series, the BBC's Nicholas Kenyon offers a final pick. He recommends a recording of the "Gran Partita," the Serenade, K. 361, by Sir ...

Classy collections usually come at a price, but the best of Universal's three-disc "Trio" packages offer both quality and quantity without breaking the bank. Take Ravel's orchestral works. Anyone ...

In his lifetime, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed upwards of 600 works—symphonies, operas, sonatas, and concertos—that have fixed him in the pantheon of Western Classical music. His known oeuvre, ...

This child prodigy became one of the most popular and prolific classical composers of all time, having written more than 600 pieces of music in his short lifetime. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in ...

In 1781 a newspaper in Vienna announced three new piano concertos by Mozart which could be performed either with orchestra or a string quartet. Here are the three all on one disc with the upfront, ...