Thursday`s concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was the first in my experience in which the oldest piece of music on the program was the one receiving its world premiere. The score in question ...

Yundi Li performs Franz Liszt's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat major. It took Franz Liszt 26 years to compose his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat Major. But his long ...

Romantics aren’t customarily shy about expressing their feelings. And such was definitely the case with classical composers of the romantic era. As the 19th century went on, much of the music grew ...

It’s hard to say what else Stephen Hough did before performing with the San Diego Symphony Friday in Copley Symphony Hall, but we know he had sushi for lunch. At least that what he tweeted earlier in ...

Stephen Hough’s latest CD has obviously been issued to tie-in with the Liszt bicentenary celebrations. But it’s actually Hough’s performance of the Grieg concerto (which Liszt famously read at sight ...

In the week that the Minnesota Orchestra has unveiled its slightly truncated Sommerfest season, the festival’s artistic director, Andrew Litton, is visiting to conduct a flashy and exhilarating ...

SPRINGFIELD — It’s not every day that you hear Franz Liszt’s two piano concertos played live back to back by the same artist. In fact, it’s virtually unheard of. Naturally many of the world’s great ...

Ten years ago, a budding teenage pianist made his debut with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. The reception was mixed, with critics citing rare talent but room for growth. Today, that artist is one ...

It took Franz Liszt 26 years to compose his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat Major. But his long years of off-and-on composition paid off. The work, which is said to have been modeled ...