Evgeny Kissin Plays Brahms
The Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 is the second of the Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118, that Johannes Brahms wrote for solo piano. Completed in 1893 and dedicated to Clara Schumann, the collection was …
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Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos
Mozart composed 27 concerti for Piano and Orchestra. Many of these were done for his own performances in which he appeared as the soloist. One of his compositions was for two separate pianos, and, in …
Mozart’s D-Minor Piano Concerto KV 466
While Mozart’s D-Minor Concerto makes its stormy intentions clear from the very beginning, it does not state its principal theme at the outset; rather, there are a few bars of murmurous, agitated, syncopated swirlings in …
Yeol Eum Son Plays Schumann’s “Kinderszenen”
Robert Schumann composed Kinderszenen in February and March 1838, during a separation from his fiancée Clara Wieck. The translation of the German title is “Scenes from Childhood” Depictions of children at that time tended glorify …
Mozart’s Piano Trio KV 564
In October 1788, Mozart wrote the Piano Trio in G major K564. It is a sign of the times that it was first published in England, not in Vienna. And it is a sign of …