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“Ständchen” (“Serenade”) is an art song composed by Richard Strauss in 1886, setting a poem of the same title by the German poet Adolf Friedrich von Schack. It is the second song in his collection …

The Sonata #8, titled “Pathetique”, hails from the early part of Beethoven’s career: the late 1700s, a time when the traditions of the Classical period were still dominant and Beethoven himself was largely content to …

I find that personally I enjoy more the so-called “Part II” of this work, because of its inclusion of music for angels and other delights. Also, I am often disturbed by Mahler’s seeming reference to …

Beethoven composed this sonata in 1800, and this work was published two years later under the title “Grande Sonate” because the composer wanted to demonstrate the resumption of an earlier four-movement sonata srructure. Beethoven proudly …

The Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, by Sir Edward Elgar was written for the most part during the summer of 1919 at Brinkwells, a cottage near Sussex. The composer conducted the London Symphony …