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Violinist David Oistrakh studied violin as a child with Stoliarsky in Odessa, making his debut there at the age of 6, and then continued his studies with Stoliarsky at the Odessa Conservatory (1923-26); then appeared as …

You already know that I am a huge fan of Yuja Wang. Today she plays the wonderful Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #3 for y’all:

The long first movement of the Brahms violin concert features sequences of turbulent emotion, sometimes interwoven and sometimes quick-cut with dreamy lyricism. The Adagio is justly famous for the great oboe melody at its foundation. …

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) composed the Cello Concerto in his East 17th Street apartment in New York from November 1894 to February 1895, near the end of his American residency of 1892 to 1895. His psychological …

Beethoven completed his A-flat Sonata opus 110 in 1821. Yet the moderate tempo and profound lyrical style of the first movement takes us back to such earlier piano sonatas as the “Moonlight” (Op. 21, no. …