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David Oistrakh, the great Russian violinist, outstanding pedagogue, and esteemed conductor was born in the city of Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). His father was David Kolker and his mother was Isabella Beyle …

There is about an hour of music in the full Rosamunde score by Franz Schubert, but most of it (aside from the Overture) is rarely heard. Ironically, however, the third of the Entracte which Schubert …

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2. Back in 1840, Robert Schumann wrote that the Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor is ‘The masterpiece of our time in the trio genre. Schumann went on …

The Brahms Double Concerto was a work of reconciliation on more than just the personal level, for it united the elements of the Baroque concerto grosso, its solo group (concertino) pitted against the orchestra, with …

The so-called “Kreutzer Sonata” opens with a slow introduction, a cadenza-like entrance for the violin alone. The piano makes a similarly dramatic entrance, and gradually the two instruments outline the interval of a rising half-step …