Lisa Batiashvili Performs the Tchaikovsky Concerto
I heard Lisa Batiashvili for the first time while I was on vacation in Toronto many years ago. She was fairly new to the concert stage, yet I heard a lot of promise in her …
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Debussy’s Gypsy Music, “Slower than Slow”
During a brief visit to Budapest in 1910 Claude Debussy was impressed by the Gypsy-style cafe ensembles he heard in the city. Of one Gypsy musician, Debussy wrote: “In an ordinary, commonplace café, he gave …
Yuja Wang Performs For You
Austrian composer Franz Schubert left us about 600 songs. Among these is the amazing “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, in English: Gretchen at the spinning wheel. The lyrics are as follows: Gretchen at the spinning-wheel English Translation …
Gautier Capucon and Yuja Wang Perform for You
I had planned for you today a wonderful program of Romantic music by Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Edvard Grieg. In particular the Grieg brings out the folk tunes of Norway as part of the composer’s …
Igor Levit Performs Beethoven
Pianist Igor Levit was born in Russia in 1987, and his parents relocated to Germany when Igor was age 8. He began his piano studies with his mother. As the youngest participant in the 2005 Arthur …