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Outstanding musical and pianistic skills; Amazing stage presence. Sense of humor. Great entertainer. These are just a few of the qualities that endear pianist Yuja Wang to her listeners. Would you like to listen to …

Brahms worked on the Second Piano Concerto for three years. He wrote to Clara Schumann: “I want to tell you that I have written a very small piano concerto with a very small and pretty …

The Sonata in A-Major was written for Brahms’ friend, Joseph Joachim, for whom he had recently completed his Violin Concerto, and it shares that monumental work’s lyrical style, its concern to make the violin sing …

  Sibelius’ Concerto I’ve been listening to the Violin concerto by Jean Sibelius. This Finnish composer was born in 1865 and died in 1957. His music is lyrical, dramatic, and emotional. When I thought about …

Mozart composed his second-to-last piano sonata in February 1789, but it did not become known until five years after his death when it was published as a sonata for piano and violin! This B-flat major …