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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prokofiev’s Second: a formidable prospect for any pianist in terms of both technical difficulty and mental and physical stamina. In a work that lasts around the 30-minute mark, the number of bars ...

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 ...

French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is a light-fingered Prokofievian, and his orientation towards clarity rather than weight is shared by his conducting partner, Gianandrea Noseda. Their Prokofiev is ...