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Maurice Ravel composed the Tombeau de Couperin in 1917. Ravel described it as an homage “directed less in fact to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century.” Disregarding the philosopher (and would-be …

Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) on the 18th of April 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at …

Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35, was written in 1945. In style it is thoroughly romantic, even in its opening hinting at the melodic contours of a Rachmaninov symphony, and,rightly or wrongly, it …

Schubert’s original song, “Die Forelle,” was so popular that it was published several times within Schubert’s lifetime – once in 1820, again in 1825, and again in 1827, when it was assigned Opus 32. In …

I watched and listened to violinist Kerson Leong perform the second movement of the Beethoven Violin concerto on Saturday, April 2, 2022. What a deep feeling this young man has for the music! And the …