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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.