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The concerto begins slowly with an introduction by the orchestra. This gives way to the entrance of the soloist, who introduces the first movement’s main melody, one of Tchaikovsky’s most beautiful themes. The soloist’s music …

By the time he reached the period of his Fourth Symphony, composer Anton Bruckner had staked a firm place in Austrian musical life. He had distinguished himself especially as an organist and was an almost …

Johann Sebastian Bach’s genius shines with a special light in the three sonatas and three partitas he wrote for solo violin in 1720, and the six suites for solo cello he composed about the same …

The first movement of the sonata #18 is a total delight to listen to, from the surprising harmony that opens the piece, to the richly textured chord response and thematic group that emerges from it. …

The Symphony #3 by Beethoven was, in my view, a revolutionary work in the development of Music. The foundational idea of the first movement of Beethoven’s Third Symphony is a narrative of struggle, which is …