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Robert Schumann rated the string quartet very highly, describing it as ‘noble’ and considering it to be one of the most revealing in terms of compositional craftsmanship. Possibly it was the high regard in which …

Here is an interesting new recording for you: The second album set for release very soon represents Barenboim’s Chamber Music series with a wonderful ensemble: Yulia Deyneka who works as professor at the Barenboim-Said Academy …

On this recording, pianists Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan present amazing selections from Prokofiev’s music for stage and screen in magnificent two-piano transcriptions by Babayan. The album features Babayan’s twelve-movement transcription of numbers from the …

Every year huge groups of music lovers travel to listen to musical gems at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. This recording features the following program: Contents: Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83 …

I have the music of Robert Schumann on my mind today. Such beauty, such pain, such passion! I guess that this is music expressing the composer’s love for his wife, Clara… Schumann had to wait …