This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...

Busoni: Piano Concerto; ”Fantasia Contrappuntistica” (Viktoria Postnikova, piano; Orchestre National de France and Radio France Chorus, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Erato, 2-CD set). Busoni: ...

CLEVELAND -- If this is how the Cleveland Orchestra makes up for being gone two weeks, maybe it ought to travel more. Indeed, the concert it gave Thursday night at Severance Hall, its first in ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine if Brahms had lost the plot in his later years and turned out a giant piano concerto that embraced ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.

John Ogdon (piano), Royal PO/Daniell Revenaugh, New Philharmonia Orchestra/ Frederick Prausnitz, Thomas Adès (piano) EMI Classics Gemini 456 2342 (2 CDs) **** It was John Ogdon's 1968 recording of ...