Beethoven completed five piano concertos in under 20 years, earning considerable amounts of money by performing them himself in concert. Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has performed the ...

Although highly praised at the time of their initial release on RCA Victor, John Browning’s late 1960s recordings of the five Prokofiev piano concertos didn’t last long in the LP catalog. This ...

Tie yourself and your valuables down. Denis Matsuev and Valery Gergiev take a dangerous, open-top sports car approach to Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. The sharpness of the attack, the delight in ...

Proms 2015: Is five Prokofiev piano concertos in one night too many? Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra’s rendition of all five Prokofiev piano concertos in one programme has divided ...

The Prokofiev piano concertos are, like his symphonies, an uneven bunch. No. 3 is perhaps the most frequently performed 20th-century piano concerto after Rachmaninoff’s, but the last two are usually ...

Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto has never been more popular but for her second concerto collaboration on disc the young Armenian-born Nareh Arghamanyan has come up with a refreshingly individual take ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Here was one of the BBC Proms’ more insane programming ideas: all five of Prokofiev’s fiendishly difficult piano ...