Andreas Ottensamer and Yuja Wang Play for You
Take two world-class musicians, put them on a joint stage, and ask them to play some Romantic music by Mendelssohn, and what do you get? Here are Yuja and Andreas to play for you the …
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Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #27, Opus 90
The sonata #27 dates from shortly after the defeat of Napoleon, and a strong sense of patriotism was sweeping Vienna, where Beethoven resided. Perhaps for this reason he began using German rather than Italian to …
Violist Richard O’Neill Performs Schumann
Richard O’Neill was recently appointed violist of the well-known Takács Quartet. He has distinguished himself as one of the great instrumentalists of his generation. GRAMMY Award winner for Best Classical Instrumental Solo Performance in 2021, …
Yuja Wang Performs the Schumann Piano Concerto
The Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann began life as a Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in one movement. The Fantasy was Schumann’s first completed work for piano and orchestra; he had made four earlier attempts …
Janine Jansen Performs the Violin Concerto by Sibelius
The Sibelius Violin Concerto begins with a quiet, foggy soundscape of muted tremolo strings, over which the mysterious melody of the solo violin emerges, expressivity outlining the first themes of the movement. Sibelius conceived this …