Schubert’s Rosamunde: Entracte #3
There is about an hour of music in the full Rosamunde score by Franz Schubert, but most of it (aside from the Overture) is rarely heard. Ironically, however, the third of the Entracte which Schubert …
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The Concerto for Violin and Cello by Johannes Brahms
The Brahms Double Concerto was a work of reconciliation on more than just the personal level, for it united the elements of the Baroque concerto grosso, its solo group (concertino) pitted against the orchestra, with …
Anne-Sophie Mutter Plays the “Kreutzer Sonata” by Beethoven
The so-called “Kreutzer Sonata” opens with a slow introduction, a cadenza-like entrance for the violin alone. The piano makes a similarly dramatic entrance, and gradually the two instruments outline the interval of a rising half-step …
Michelangeli Plays Beethoven’s Sonatas # 12 and 11
Beethoven composed his Sonata no. 12, Op. 26, in 1800–1, at the same time as he completed his first symphony. Dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, the work consists of 4 movements and takes around …