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Composer Max Bruch titled this concerto’s opening section “Prelude”,  implying that it serves primarily as an introduction to the more important second movement, the adagio. The prelude opens in an air of quiet, brooding melancholy before …

Beethoven was said to consider the string quartet Opus 131 his own favorite. Beethoven completed it in May 1826, and he may have heard it in a private performance before he died, but it was …

Born in Chambéry, France in 1981, Gautier Capuçon began cello studies in his native city at age five. At the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris he studied cello with Annie Cochet-Zakine and piano with Christophe Egiziano, …

Many Schubert’s greatest works belong to his last year, which saw the creation of the “Great” C major Symphony, the String Quintet, D. 956, the piano trios D. 929 and D. 898, the Mass in …

Not published until 1851, this work of Schubert’s early maturity fully deserves the designation “duo” appended by the publisher; unlike Schubert’s earlier works for violin and piano, this sonata makes the keyboard a full partner …