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Like so many millions of other music lovers, I, too, have not attended a LIVE concert until today. And this afternoon, 014/09/2022, this drought was broken when I attended the concert by the English Baroque …

Born in a small town near Brescia, in Italy, Michelangeli graduated from the Milan Conservatory at age 14. Five years later, he won first prize at the Geneva International Competition, where Alfred Cortot declared: “In …

Composer Max Bruch titled this concerto’s opening section “Prelude”,  implying that it serves primarily as an introduction to the more important second movement, the adagio. The prelude opens in an air of quiet, brooding melancholy before …

Beethoven was said to consider the string quartet Opus 131 his own favorite. Beethoven completed it in May 1826, and he may have heard it in a private performance before he died, but it was …

Born in Chambéry, France in 1981, Gautier Capuçon began cello studies in his native city at age five. At the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris he studied cello with Annie Cochet-Zakine and piano with Christophe Egiziano, …