Alban Berg Quartet Plays Schubert’s Quartet #14
Composer Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet is a somber work, with all four of its movements set in a minor key. It takes its name from the composer’s lied Der Tod und …
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Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #27, Op. 90
Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorzutragen. (With liveliness and with feeling and expression throughout. Not too fast, …
Kissin Plays Rachmaninov
The Prelude Opus 32, number 12 by Sergei Rachmaninov was composed in 1910. It complements his earlier Prelude in C♯ minor, Op. 3/2, and 10 Preludes, Op. 23, to complete the full set of 24 …
Beethoven’s Symphony #1
It was a bold step for Beethoven to write his first symphony when Haydn’s final work in the same form was just five years old and Mozart’s Jupiter just twelve. But this was perhaps the …
Julia Fischer Performs the Passacaglia by Halvorsen
Composer Johan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. He became professor of music in Helsinki and continued his studies in St. Petersburg, Leipzig, Berlin and Liège.He received his musical education in Kristiania (now …