Evgeny Kissin Performs a Collection of Beethoven Sonatas
Evgeny Kissin was born in Moscow in October 1971 and began to play by ear and improvise on the piano at the age of two. At six years old, he entered a special school for …
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Wilhelm Kempff Plays Schumann’s Arabeske Op. 18
The story of Robert and Clara Schumann is a familiar one: He was a brooding, poetic soul with a passion for music, literature and composition and she the prodigious daughter of his piano teacher. Their …
The Piano Concerto #27 by Mozart
The B-flat Concerto, K. 595, is Mozart’s final work in the concerto form. The Concerto, completed in January 1791, broke a nearly three-year concerto dry spell, the longest period without a new piano-orchestra work since …
Zimerman Performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #2
Although Beethoven was at the time this music was composed already an experienced orchestral composer, the Concerto in B-flat was the first orchestral work he considered fit for publication. But, to avoid criticism, he would …
Bach’s masterpiece: The Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach are comprised of a theme (the so-called Aria) and 30 variations. The Aria resembles a binary dance movement known as “sarabande,” where the movements are repeated. The Aria …