Arthur Rubinstein Plays Schubert’s Sonata D.960
Many Schubert’s greatest works belong to his last year, which saw the creation of the “Great” C major Symphony, the String Quintet, D. 956, the piano trios D. 929 and D. 898, the Mass in …
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Janine Jansen Plays Schubert’s Sonata D. 574
Not published until 1851, this work of Schubert’s early maturity fully deserves the designation “duo” appended by the publisher; unlike Schubert’s earlier works for violin and piano, this sonata makes the keyboard a full partner …
Yeol Eum Son Plays Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin
Maurice Ravel composed the Tombeau de Couperin in 1917. Ravel described it as an homage “directed less in fact to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century.” Disregarding the philosopher (and would-be …
Gregory Sokolov Plays the Brahms Intermezzo Opus 117, #2
Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) on the 18th of April 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at …
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto, Opus 35
Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35, was written in 1945. In style it is thoroughly romantic, even in its opening hinting at the melodic contours of a Rachmaninov symphony, and,rightly or wrongly, it …