Mitsuko Uchida’s Connection With Vienna
Mitsuko Uchida studied piano as a young child, but her more serious musical training began in earnest after her family moved to Vienna when Uchida was 12 years old. There she enrolled in the Vienna …
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Carlos Kleiber Conducts Johann Strauss
In addition to the nearly 500 pieces of dance music he published, Johann Strauss, Jr. scored important successes as a composer of operetta and light opera. “Die Fledermaus” has proved the most enduring. Fortunately cushioned …
Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Winds KV 297
From Mozart’s letters to his father we know that in 1778, during his stay in Paris, he wrote a Sinfonia concertante for flute, oboe, horn, bassoon and orchestra, for a quartet of wind instrumentalists likewise …
The Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms
The Brahms Concerto was first performed in Leipzig Germany on New Year’s Day 1879 by Joseph Joachim, who composed the cadenza that is still played by many violinists today. Never fond of waste, Brahms presents …
Igor Levit Plays Beethoven Sonatas
Born in Russia in 1987, Pianist Igor Levit relocated at a young age to Germany. As the youngest participant in the 2005 Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, he won the Silver Prize, as well …