Classic FM Album of the Week, starting Monday 23 November 2015 after 10am. This the first recording that rising star Mélodie Zhao has made with a full orchestra - and it's an ambitious one, too. But ...

Here is Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, but not (quite) as you know it. Kirill Gerstein is offering the first recording of the 1879 version, which he says invites a less showy kind of performance.

Anyone who heard Stephen Hough's barnstorming performances of all the Tchaikovsky piano concertos at last year's Proms will want to own these CDs, which mark Hyperion's 50th recording in their ...

Spirited version from Russia of the great piano concerto. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 13 January 2014. The young Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov has been making quite a name for himself, winning ...

Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series, begun in 1991, has thrown light on a huge repertoire lying beneath the surface of the ubiquitous concertos by Liszt, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Chopin or Schumann.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The pianist Nikolay Rubinstein, dedicatee of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, famously described the work as ...

Winner of the People’s Choice award and overall 2nd prizewinner of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, Rem Urasin’s brilliant performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto catapulted ...

Research by pianist Kirill Gerstein has revealed that the standardly performed version of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto differs substantially from what the composer actually wrote. It’s a shame ...