Buchbinder's stop at our studio was just a few hours before his performance of a Beethoven Piano Concerto at Symphony Hall with the Dresden Staatskapelle.

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Alfred Brendel, an Austrian pianist, received great acclaim for his recital on the opening night and again, three days later, when he played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 to a packed house.

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On May 19 at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Levine will conduct the Met Orchestra in a program that will include the prelude to Act I of Wagner's "Lohengrin, " Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, featuring piano soloist Evgeny Kissin, and Schubert's Symphony No. 9.

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Haydn's horn concerto, Mozart's four horn concertos, and Beethoven's sonata for horn and piano were all written for natural horn, although they're usually played today on valve horn.

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