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The Sonata in C major K330 by Mozart combines subtlety and expressive warmth. Its leisurely first movement (Allegro moderato) is a virtually unbroken flow of lyricism, with minimal contrasts between themes and bouts of brilliant …

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was born into a family of musicians. Her father, a choral conductor, and her mother, a pianist, encouraged her instinctive desire to perform. “I spent my childhood in music-making,” she told the BBC …

Christian Ferras was born at Le Touquet, France in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father. In 1948 Ferras won First Prize at the international Scheveningen Festival; Yehudi Menuhin was among the judges. …

Mozart composed his Clarinet Concerto for the clarinettist Anton Stadler, who was the most gifted clarinettist in Vienna at the time. It was the first clarinet concerto to be written by a major composer – …

In Beethoven’s sixth sonata for violin and piano, Beethoven has become very much his own man, striking out with a distinctly formed individuality almost free of the ties that bound him to his predecessors, Mozart, …