Mozart’s Serenade #11 for Winds
The first version of this Serenade featured pairs of clarinets, horns, and bassoons, but within a short while the Viennese court established a wind octet which added oboes to this line-up. In his haste (as …
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Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto #3
The Piano Concerto #3 by Rachmaninov was first performed on Sunday, November 28, 1909 in New York City. Sergei Rachmaninoff was the soloist. The work received a second performance under conductor Gustav Mahler on January 16, 1910, …
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #6
What greater compliment can a composer receive than the fact that Gustav Mahler would perform your works? Such was in fact the case with the life of Peter Tchaikovsky when Mahler performed Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #6. …
Andras Schiff Plays Beethoven
Just let yourself imagine two opposing forces in Vienna, Austria in the early 1800’s: On one hand you have young Beethoven, wanting to get the attention and approval of the public at the music capital …
Michelangeli Plays Schubert’s Piano Sonata #4 in A-Minor
Franz Schubert spent a good part of spring 1817 and most of the following summer composing piano sonatas. The first of these 1817 sonatas, the Piano Sonata in A minor, D. 537, written during March and …