Schubert’s Song “An Die Musik”
Schubert left us about 600 songs when he died in the early 1800’s. Also some heavenly chamber music and several symphonies. His song “And die Musik” is one of the best-known songs by Schubert. Its …
Composers Archive
Sibelius’ Amazing Violin Concerto
In September 1902 Jean Sibelius wrote to his wife that he had just conceived “a marvelous opening idea” for a violin concerto, and if he was speaking of the way that the work actually begins …
Michelangeli Plays Ravel
I am posting today a magnificent performance of te Ravle Piano Concerto as performed by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. This concerto in G major was composed between 1929 and 1931. The concerto is in three movements …
Chamber Music by Edward Elgar
The three great chamber works, the String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Violin Sonata, were among the very last works that Edward Elgar wrote, composed during an intensive and productive period in 1918 and 1919. The …
Pianist Lars Vogt Performs Mozart
In this album, pianist Lars Vogt performs two early sonatas by Mozart that are coupled together with the touching A minor Sonata, K310 – written at the time of the composer’s mother’s death – and …