Concerto for Orchestra by Bela Bartok
Bela Bartok composed the score for his “Concerto for Orchestra” in only two months at the health resort of Saranac Lake in upstate New York, and he completed on October 8, 1943. The first performance, …
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Mitsuko Uchida Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto #22, KV 482
Mozart completed the Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major on December 16, 1785 as he was approaching the height of his popularity in Vienna. Almost simultaneously, he had been working on the score to …
Symphony #88 by Josef Haydn
After a slow introduction, the first movement of Haaydn’s Symphony #88 moves into a perky Allegro in which Haydn plays with the conventions of sonata form so that every detail seems spontaneous. To mention just …
Violinist Zino Francescatti Plays Bach
violinist Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, France in 1902. His real name was René-Charles Francescatti. Both his parents played the violin, and his father René had been a student of Paganini. The younger Francescatti …
New Insight into Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #31
There are times when a new recoding by a well-known pianist and/or the use of a world-class Boesendorfer piano sheds brand new light into music that has been my great favorite for many years. Today …