Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto
Edward Elgar wrote his Violin Concerto in B-Minor in 1910. It was one of his last works to gain immediate popular success. Fritz Kreisler was the soloist at the premier in London. It was Elgar …
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St. Lawrence Quartet Plays Haydn
The St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) was established many years ago in Toronto, Canada. In 1998 they joined the Stanford faculty, and the SLSQ has drawn praise since its inception for the intensity of its …
The Piano Concerto #2 by Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms worked on the Second Piano Concerto for three years. He wrote to his good friend, Clara Schumann: “I want to tell you that I have written a very small piano concerto with a …
Sviatoslav Richter Plays Schubert’s Piano Sonata #13
Franz Schubert’s sonata #13 is the most direct and economical of the Schubert sonatas; it surely is one of the most endearing. The first movement’s main theme, although tailor-made for the keyboard, is another of …
Barbara Bonney Sings the Music of Richard Strauss
“Morgen!”is the last in a set of four songs composed in 1894 by the German composer Richard Strauss. It was one of his ‘four Lieder Opus 27’, a wedding present to his wife, Pauline. ‘Morgen!’ …