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We've unearthed a fine recording from the 1970s, of some remarkable European and American soloists performing the piano trios of Dvorak.
The trio sonata is by far the most important type of Baroque chamber music. The designation “trio” refers not to the number of performers, as is the case with the...
The trio sonata is by far the most important type of Baroque chamber music. The designation “trio” refers not to the number of performers, as is the case with the...
Virtuoso performing skill was virtually a prerequisite for any self-respecting 17th-, 18th-, or 19th-century composer. Biber, Corelli, Locatelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms were all renowned performers....
Virtuoso performing skill was virtually a prerequisite for any self-respecting 17th-, 18th-, or 19th-century composer. Biber, Corelli, Locatelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms were all renowned performers....
Ferruccio Busoni, Kurt Weill's revered mentor and teacher at the Prussian Academy of the Arts, often found his "serious'' compositions problematical. Anton Webern is reported to have asked in dismay:...
Ferruccio Busoni, Kurt Weill's revered mentor and teacher at the Prussian Academy of the Arts, often found his "serious'' compositions problematical. Anton Webern is reported to have asked in dismay:...
Chips from Beethoven's workbench: this record reminded me--as so many things do these days--of time's swift and inexorable passage. To put it another way, it, to all intents and purposes,...
Chips from Beethoven's workbench: this record reminded me--as so many things do these days--of time's swift and inexorable passage. To put it another way, it, to all intents and purposes,...
When I first heard Saint-Saens Carnival of Animals as a child (Ogden Nash's verses and all), I dismissed the whole enterprise with a derogatory sniffle as “children's music.” Later I...
When I first heard Saint-Saens Carnival of Animals as a child (Ogden Nash's verses and all), I dismissed the whole enterprise with a derogatory sniffle as “children's music.” Later I...
What could be more sensual than the sounds of the tango, that high, powered, rhythmic dance of Latin countries? And what better voice for it than two guitars, the Spanish-bred...
What could be more sensual than the sounds of the tango, that high, powered, rhythmic dance of Latin countries? And what better voice for it than two guitars, the Spanish-bred...
