Artists Archive

Mr. Geoff Nuttal of the St. Lawrence String Quartet at Stanford University died recently of Pancreatic Cancer. It was a shock to many of us who always enjoyed Nuttal’s leadership and great performances. Geoff Nuttal …

The Second Symphony by Rachmaninov is in four movements. The first movement begins with an extended slow-tempo introduction (Largo), opening with a motif that will appear in various forms throughout the work. The principal quick-tempo …

The Symphony #5 by Franz Schubert which for me has the most “romantic” tendencies of the first five, was composed between September and October of 1816. It has a relatively small orchestration ( 1 flute, …

The Piano Quartet in E♭ major, Op. 47, was composed by Robert Schumann in 1842 for piano, violin, viola and cello. Written during a productive period in which he produced several large-scale chamber music works, …

As compared to the other composers, Frederic Chopin was perhaps the most well known composer/pianist of his day. Having already earned early fame in his beloved Poland, he moved while still young to Vienna and …