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Mozart’s Aria Ch’io mi scordi di te” was composed for the unusual combination of solo voice, piano obbligato and orchestra. Mozart wrote it on December 26, 1786, intending to perform the piano part himself with …

Out of all of Franz Schubert’s string quartets, the String Quartet No. 13 is the only one that was published in the composer’s lifetime. It is actually a fairly dark work, at least at the …

Vladimir Horowitz was a Russian-born American virtuoso pianist steeped in the Romantic tradition. He was celebrated for his flawless technique and an almost orchestral quality of tone. Horowitz’s performances of works by Franz Liszt, Sergey …

Andras Schiff is one of the world’s major pianists and teachers. While I have enjoyed his playing of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, he spends a great deal of time in this concert to …

Brahms’ first piano concerto, which made no concessions to contemporary taste, was, it seems, conceived originally as a sonata for two pianos. This then became a symphony, to reach its final form as the Piano …