BBC Music Magazine just gave a five-star review to Conrad Tao’s “American Rage” album, praising performances of 20th-century pieces that are “craggy and dissonant,” “rise to a fury” and “sound an ...

He’s an internationally in-demand pianist, a composer himself, and a very busy recording artist. He makes Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, the “Emperor Concerto,” sound as fresh as a new work. You ...

This week, we'll hear the Kansas City Symphony perform two of Mozart's symphonies, including his 'Haffner,' which he wrote in a hurry to met a deadline and fulfill a promise to his father. We'll also ...

Inspired by paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, composer Elena Ruehr’s “Sky Above Clouds” is the middle movement of a musical triptych and perfectly captures O’Keeffe’s flair for contemporary sweeping ...

Reunited onstage, Round Rock Symphony and Anton Nel will present Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. This is a follow-up performance to their February 2015 presentation of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto.

Beethoven began to write his longest and final Piano Concerto while Napoleon was bombarding Vienna in 1809; a situation Beethoven described as “nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts.” ...