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 ...

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 ...

Musical ducklings don't come much uglier than Prokofiev's Fifth Piano Concerto, an odd and often ungainly concoction that emerged in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night as a gleaming, irresistible ...

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 ...

And the composer benefited too, with his Fourth and Fifth Concertos, both difficult works to programme, finding a natural home, and both appearing for the first time at the Proms. Daniil Trifonov ...

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 ...

THE BASICS: After a successful solo recital last year, pianist Alexander Malofeev returned to Buffalo to perform the popular Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Prokofiev with JoAnn Falletta conducting the ...

As Blu-ray is to VHS, Yuja Wang is to most other pianists. This 22-year-old phenom’s performance Wednesday at Davies Symphony Hall was a dazzler, leaving nearly 2,700 concertgoers playing the role of ...

Daniil Trifonov (main picture) opened the proceedings with an austere but committed reading of the First Concerto. Trifonov has a distinctive sound, precise, clean and focused. He is expressive, but ...