Robert Schumann was unusual in the method of his compositional output. Before 1840 he composed mostly for piano. In 1840 (the year he married Clara) he turned to song and produced about 120 vocal ...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns opens with an extended piano solo. Usually, the orchestra plays long before the piano enters. Perhaps his most popular concerto, the ...

Their soothing tones and hypnotic arpeggios amass gigantic listening figures on ‘chill’ Spotify playlists, but composers such as Nils Frahm are shunned by the classical world Pitch darkness. Then a ...