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Schubert’s song cycle, “Winterreise” (Winter Journey), was published in 1828 and is another setting of the poetry of Wilhelm Müller. In the 24 songs we follow a wanderer across a winter landscape. It’s not an …

The Concerto in D Major for Oboe and Small Orchestra was one of the last works written by German composer Richard Strauss. It was completed in 1945, and Strauss revised the ending in 1948; the …

Over the past several days I have been studying and listening again to the amazing piano concerto KV 482 by Mozart. It carries the number 22, and I am totally thrilled with it again. I …

In Beethoven’s sixth sonata for violin and piano, Beethoven has become very much his own man, striking out with a distinctly formed individuality almost free of the ties that previously bound him to his predecesors. …

The violin concerto by German composer Max Bruch is admired especially for its lyrical melodies, which span nearly the entire range of the instrument. The work was premiered in Bremen, Germany, on January 7, 1868, …