Recordings of his four piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini are legion, so Wang and Dudamel enter a competitive field. Wang has an immediately distinctive personality.

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody. Posted 17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023 Sun 17 Sep 2023 at 7:00am. Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel. Share.

Rachmaninov's piano concerto-esque work was the 1934 equivalent of sampling a pop song. The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is also one of the romantic period's greatest pieces. Had he lived to hear ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

Believing there was still solo piano music to be mined from the theme, Mark Hambourg’s 16 Variations on a Theme of Paganini appeared in 1902; Ignaz Friedman’s Studien über ein Thema von Paganini, Op ...

Simon Trpceski (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, cond Vasily Petrenko. Rating: * * * * * ...

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2; Paganini Variations Book 2; 3 Hungarian Dances. Boris Berezovsky, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra/ Dmitri Liss Mirare MIR 132 **** Michael Dervan. Fri Apr 01 2011 - 01:00.

Along comes the piano phenom of our age, Daniil Trifonov, in a performance that could also be described as overly dramatic except that it was rendered so powerfully and with so much rhetorical ...

The piece was written by Liszt in 1851 and actually comes from a larger piece – the Grandes études de Paganini and is famous for being one of the most difficult pieces ever written for piano. (But no ...

Geoffrey Norris reviews Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini performed by Yevgeny Sudbin.

In 1917 Szymanowski and his family left Tymoszówka and moved to Elisavetgrad, where he composed as well as playing a few concerts of his own music and accompanying violinist Wiktor Goldfeld. It was ...