How one composer almost single-handedly raised the piano concerto to unprecedented heights

It's the clarinet's turn to step centre-stage for a look at their concerto repertoire. It's possible Mozart is mentioned!

Ahead of the SCO's performances of two key opera seria in this year's Edinburgh International Festival, we look at the history of the genre.

For the last article in our concerto series (for now), we turn to an instrument too often dismissed as the orchestra's resident joker.

In the third installment of our series looking at the concerto, it's the turn of the SCO flautists to recommend their favourites.

What was it about C minor that brought out Beethoven's defiant side? We take a look at a few examples.

We delve into the history of a hybrid genre ...

How do composers set about telling a story in music? We look at a few examples.

The oboe: refined, yes, but cheeky or melancholic? Join us as we look at the concertos exploring this instrument's wide-ranging moods.

We've reached the violin in our series on the concerto, and there's no end of them! (You might want to pour yourself a cup of tea for this.)

Schubert is far from the only composer to have put a piece of music aside and leave it unfinished ...

Our examination of the concerto continues with the viola, whose potential as a solo instrument was long unrecognised.