From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Glass, like Bach before him, ...

There's no shortage of decent recordings of Bach concertos played on piano. I’d probably rescue my Murray Perahia discs from a burning house and Glenn Gould’s vintage accounts still cast a spell. This ...

Historically-informed recordings of Bach's Brandenburgs are the norm now. Which is a good thing, though exposure to each new set can leave me craving a bit of naughty inauthenticity – those old modern ...

These performances of Bach’s solo works are elegant and persuasive – balancing a modern tone with an alert awareness of period style To celebrate his 50th birthday, Renaud Capuçon has recorded Bach’s ...

Musician Douglas Livingston, trained as a classical pianist and obsessed with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach since childhood, nonetheless defected into a distinguished pop music career. A ...

Anyone planning to give the gift of music for Christmas should seriously consider Aristo Sham’s new solo piano album. Timeline, released by Universal Music Hong Kong on November 7, is a thoughtfully ...