Mozart’s Piano concerto #19 is a gem of a concerto that was completed on December 11, 1784. It is the last of six piano concertos which Mozart produced that year. He played it, along with …
Maurice Ravel’s “La valse” exists in three versions – including this one for two pianos – all written between December 1919 and March 1920. The preface to the score includes the following descriptive note: “Whirling …
When composer Franz Schubert died at age 31, he left us with several symphonies, a lot of chamber music, Sonatas for piano and for violin, Ballets, and more. We are also fortunate that he left …
The String Quartets Op. 76 by Haydn are among the most renowned of Joseph Haydn’s sets of quartets, and they carry the stamp of their creator: No other set of eighteenth-century string quartets is so …
Soprano Christiane Karg was born in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria. She studied singing at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Heiner Hopfner and Wolfgang Holzmair, where she was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal. She also studied at the Music …