Sibelius’ Symphony #2
The second symphony by Jean Sibelius is the most popular and most frequently recorded of Sibelius’ symphonies. It is more skilfully orchestrated than the first symphony. The ideas of form are more mature and the …
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Introducing Pianist Dmitry Shishkin
Dmitry Shishkin was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 1992. At the young age of a year and a half, he played the first pieces of music, and when he was three years old, Dmitriy put …
Pianist Friedrich Gulda
Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer (born May 16, 1930, Vienna, Austria—died Jan. 27, 2000, Weissenbach, Austria). He was noted for his renditions of the classical repertoire (including Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and …
Lucia Popp Sings an Aria by Mozart
Lucia Popp was a singer at the Vienna State Opera. I heard her live as a boy of 14, when my family spent a year in Vienna. I was smitten with Lucia Popp… She’s gone …
Alina Pogostkina Performs in Mozart Quartet
Praised for her “deeply moving” performances (Hamburger Abendblatt), Alina Pogostkina, winner of the 2005 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, performs at many of the world’s most renowned festivals and concert venues, and collaborates with conductors such …