The Piano Concerto, which Busoni completed in 1904, is a gaudy, unapologetically over-the-top piece, stuffed with references to nineteenth-century Romantic styles.
Having made the Piano Concerto No. 2 a virtual calling card by performing it more than two-dozen times last year, Mr. Bronfman returns to the piece this spring.
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Schumann added two more movements, and the resulting Piano Concerto in A minor has become one of the most popular romantic piano concertos in the repertoire.
He performed in stadiums and nearly everywhere the crowds demanded the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto, one of his winning vehicles in Moscow.
Last week, Mr. Bronfman joined the Emerson String Quartet at New York's Carnegie Hall for an all-Brahms program, and this week he partners with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in four performances of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1.
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Earlier this month, pianist Marcus Roberts performed an original piano concerto with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
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"We've played a Mozart piano concerto where the soloist literally skipped the entire development, " Mr. Bauch says.
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When he joined with Igor Stravinsky at the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle the pianist, in typical fashion, insisted on carrying the composer's heavy bags to their backstage dressing rooms Cliburn performed Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto to a packed house on the first half of the program.
Also on the concert program is Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, performed by soloist Christian Zacharias.
The piece is essentially a 95-minute piano concerto inspired by Messiaen's visit to Bryce Canyon and Zion Park in 1972.
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.
He will also perform in Chicago, joining Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 this Thursday through Saturday his first collaboration with that ensemble since a European tour in 2000.
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The concerto's opening is notable because the piano enters almost imperceptibly.
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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.
For her four performances in New York, which the often-touring pianist calls home, Ms. Wang will play Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, a physically explosive work that she points out includes many hand crossovers.
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.
The pianist joined Liane Hansen in the studio to discuss Liszt's Concerto No. 1, which is on his latest album, Chopin Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1.
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