Yuja Wang CONDUCTING and Performing
Sketches for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 date from 1795, the year he completed the No. 2. Beethoven was in his mid-twenties when he finished both works, and with his emergent career in mind, he …
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Mozart String Quintet KV 593
Mozart’s D Major quintet seems to create a narrative sequence over its movements. Two beautiful slow sections seem to frame the first movement, and the main body of the movement has a fairly straightforward, expository …
Mozart Requiem in Memory of Death in Ukraine
Mozart died in Vienna on December 5, 1791. Yes… of course he was a genius whose creativity impacted people for more than 200 years following his death. I dedicate this music today to the infants, …
Mozart Piano Concerto #24, KV 491
Mozart completed his Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491, on March 24, 1786. It projects a reflective, personal, almost intimate quality. Much of the originality of this concerto lies in the sonority …
Carlos Kleiber Conducts the Symphony #4 by Brahms
During the summers of 1884 and 1885, Brahms composed his Symphony No. 4, working secretly in a quiet Austrian town in the Alps as was his usual practice. Despite the beautiful surroundings and his widespread …