Schubert’s Quartet #13 in A-Minor
One of the greatest chamber scores ever written by Schubert was composed as his String Quartet No. 13 in February 1824. This proved to be a distressing time for the composer who had grave health …
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Maurice Ravel’s “Mother Goose” Suite
Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite appeared first as a five-piece suite for piano four hands in 1908 and dedicated to the young son and daughter of his good friends, the Godebskis. The affectionate musical gift …
Sergiu Celibidache Leads Anton Bruckner’s Symphony #4
Bruckner never seems to be in a great hurry, and the opening subject of the Fourth Symphony is a case in point, unrolling over the grand course of seventy-four measures. The solo horn is given …
The “Petite Suite” by Claude Debussy
Debussy’s Petite Suite was published in its original piano four-hands version in 1889, and transcriptions for solo piano and for violin and piano appeared in 1906. What catapulted it to true popularity, however, was its …
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings is the orchestral arrangement of the second movement of American composer Samuel Barber’s String Quartet (1936). This music has long been associated in the United States with national periods of mourning, having …