Ólafur Arnalds

The reggaetón superstar kicks off our "El Tiny" takeover of the Tiny Desk (home) concert series.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy 

The pop singer premieres new music with family and friends for her "El Tiny" home concert.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy 

The Colombian indie rock band performs a colorful and funky four-song set from their home country's capital, Bogotá.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy 

Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto - famously featured in David Lean's film "Brief Encounter" - is one of the world's most popular pieces of classical music. Some of its fans describe the way in which it has touched and shaped their lives. Featuring a pianist from Taiwan whose memo ... Show More

This week's Gramophone Podcast explores the life and works of Liszt, with a particular focus on his piano music. Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by Gramophone writer and expert on both Liszt and the piano, Jeremy Nicholas to discuss the composer's greatest works, and their gr ... Show More

Icelandic composer and piano player Olafur Arnalds managed to squeeze a 28 piece orchestra onto the stage of Le Poisson Rouge...a nightclub in Greenwich Village. The orchestra is known as The LPR Ensemble and the music made that evening was simply magical. 

The Chinese pianist about his love for the composer's music 

<p>The French pianist Cédric Tiberghien has just released a new album, Variation[s], on Harmonia Mundi. It takes Beethoven's many sets of themes and variations for solo piano as its starting point, and weaves in major sets by others composers, in Vol 1 by Mozart, Schumann and Web ... Show More

<p>The <em>Gramophone</em> Award-winning pianist <strong>Kirill</strong> <strong>Gerstein</strong> has recorded Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko: it forms part of a twinned release, 'Rachmaninoff 150', from Platoon. James Jo ... Show More

Synopsis A concerto, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is “a piece for one or more soloists and orchestra with three contrasting movements.” And for most classical music fans, “concerto” means one of big romantic ones by Beethoven or Tchaikovsky, works in which there is a kind o ... Show More

SynopsisIn Rochester, New York, on today’s date in 1957, there was a concert at the Eastman School of Music, conducted by the school’s famous director Howard Hanson, showcasing new works composed by Eastman graduate students. Included on the program was a brand-new Trombone Conce ... Show More