Mozart’s Piano Sonata #17, KV 570
Mozart composed his second-to-last piano sonata in February 1789, but it did not become known until five years after his death when it was published as a sonata for piano and violin! This B-flat major …
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Andras Schiff Plays Schubert’s Piano Sonata D. 960
During the last weeks of his life, Schubert was able to complete works we now know to be among his greatest masterpieces. These include the String Quintet in C and the final three piano sonatas …
Harnoncourt Rehearses Beethoven
The Austrian cellist and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, grew up in Graz (Austria) and studied the cello in Vienna, where from 1952 to 1969 he was a cellist with the Vienna Symphony …
Murray Perahia Plays Schubert
Franz Schubert composed some very sad sonatas for piano. One of my favorites is the Sonata in B-Flat, D. 960. Here is pianist Murray Perahia playing this music just for you:
Yehudi Menuhin and Glenn Gould Perform Bach
Pianist Glenn Gould died on October 4, 1982. As a memorial to this amazing musician, we have for you today the piano and violin sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach, in which the violin is played …