Yuja Wang and friends have fun
Music as a career involves hard work, sacrifices, and more hard work. And now, during COVID, things are much worse… There are a few rare times when musicians can clown around, and that’s good for …
Composers Archive
Mendelssohn’s Octet with Janine Jansen
Felix Mendelssohn began the composition of his Octet, the first indisputable masterpiece of his artistic maturity, in the autumn of 1825. The work was completed on October 15, 1825, two days before the composer presented the autograph …
Martha Argerich Performs the Bach Partita #2
Martha Argerich is a genuine living legend, a musician in a class of her own who inspires a huge devotion from her many fans. In addition to her breathtaking technical skills and rare combination of …
The Music of Nicolas Bacri.
Born in Paris in 1961, Nicolas Bacri has composed more than one hundred works, including orchestral works, operas, cantatas, and chamber works. He studied under Serge Nigg and Michel Philippot ay the Paris Conservatoire until …
The Intermezzi by Johannes Brahms
The last compositions Brahms wrote for piano were those published as Opus 117, 118 and 119, principally the work of 1892, when he apparently wrote a number of other piano pieces that were never published. …