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Pianist Helene Grimaud is an amazing musician. She is also an exceptional person on an interpersonal basis. I learned this when I interviewed her while she was on a European tour. She was willing to …

Beethoven’s piano sonata Op. 14 No. 1 is a work in three movements. The first movement opens with a spacious theme that stretches itself upwards through an octave and contrasts with the step-by-step chromaticism of …

Johannes Brahms composed his A-major serenade in 1858–59, and he conducted the first performance on February 10, 1860 in Hamburg. The score calls for two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two …

The Sonata in C major K330 by Mozart combines subtlety and expressive warmth. Its leisurely first movement (Allegro moderato) is a virtually unbroken flow of lyricism, with minimal contrasts between themes and bouts of brilliant …

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was born into a family of musicians. Her father, a choral conductor, and her mother, a pianist, encouraged her instinctive desire to perform. “I spent my childhood in music-making,” she told the BBC …