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Nowhere is the pianist so often an ensemble partner and so rarely a soloist aggressively in the foreground as in this first movement of the Rachmaninov Second Concerto. The initial impulse plays itself out in …

The Intermezzo op. 118 #2 was written in 1893, towards the end of Brahms life. Along with the other sets of short pieces (op. 116, 117, and 119), these are his final works for the …

The only time in Beethoven’s symphonic career that he wrote any “program notes” occurred at the premiere of his Sixth Symphony on December 22, 1808, at the Theater an der Wien. In the printed program …

The Mozart Sonata KV 454 is clearly geared for virtuosos of both the piano and the violin. The violin part is on the same level of importance as the piano and not merely an accessory …

Composed in 1888, the Brahms Third Violin Sonata, Op. 108 in D minor, is the most serious of his three sonatas. In the first movement there are several concentrated motifs, so mysterious in their first …