A concerto usually features a single soloist — say, a violinist or a pianist — playing with an orchestra. So what was Ludwig van Beethoven thinking when he made a piano trio the soloist in his 1804 ...

The Vermont Philharmonic is preparing a pretty spectacular program that involves Vermont’s acclaimed Champlain Trio, a stellar Burlington High School pianist, and the best of the orchestra’s woodwinds ...

Hear a trio of classical stars – violinist Nicola Benedetti, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor – tackle Beethoven's Triple Concerto in this week's Feature Album. The three ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Today it’s one of the most well-loved violin concertos, but it wasn’t so popular at first... Violinist ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s never been a better time to buy a couple of extra tickets to The Cleveland Orchestra. Not one but four stellar soloists took the stage at Severance Music Center on Wednesday, ...

Beethoven's Triple Concerto is seldom played today - incomprehensibly so, said Cem Mansur, who has often conducted it and loves the unusual mix of a piano trio and orchestra. With this unconventional ...

THEY'VE visited Manchester's Mid-Day Concerts and will be back in early April for Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Camerata - and the Florestan Trio (Anthony Marwood, Richard Lester and Susan ...

The music of Ludwig van Beethoven is uniquely ubiquitous. “Every child can sing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: ‘Ba-ba-ba-bum,’ ” said David Danzmayr, music director of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. “In ...

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s program this week under Austrian guest conductor Hans Graf appears relentlessly traditional on paper: Prokofiev’s neoclassical Symphony No. 1, Mendelssohn’s Piano ...

Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Op. 56, a work which broke new ground with its combining of a piano trio with an orchestra. Show more Beethoven composed his Triple Concerto, Op.