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Chopin’s Piano Concerto in F minor was actually the first concerto he composed. Written before he had actually finished his formal education, Chopin was the soloist in the premiere of the work on 17 March …

The four Klavierstücke, Op. 119 – composed at the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl, Brahms’ summer home-away-from-home, in 1893 – are melancholic in the main, but shot through with warm light and they rise …

A surprisingly large and appreciative audience joined me on Sunday afternoon, November 6, 2022 at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall. We heard a wonderful concert by pianist Helene Grimaud. Much time has passed because of COVID …

The first movement of Schubert’s Sonata #20 is literally the longest in the entire set of three final sonatas, but quite apart from this crude measurement, Schubert manages to transport us beyond our sense of …

Music is King. Words are unimportant; so all I will write is that conductor Carlos Kleiber was – in my view – the greatest orchestral and Opera conductor of the past 100 years. Click below …