Seong-Jin Cho plays the Rachmaninov Concerto #2
I have been admiring Mr. Cho’s playing for some time now. Enjoy his performance of this music:
Composers Archive
Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet Opus 44
Schumann’s pioneer quintet became the model for a small but select line of similar works by other composers – Brahms, Franck, Dvorak, Fauré, Elgar, Reger, Bloch and Shostakovich. It is interesting that, with a single …
Celibidache Conducts Mussorgsky
Mussorgsky composed his work titled “Pictures at an Exhibition” first as a composition for piano solo. Later it was orchestrated beautifully by Maurice Ravel. Quite often this work is performed in correctly in that the …
Alfred Brendel Plays Beethoven
Pianist Alfred Brendel is now retired. I see him in a teaching role occasionally. He certainly had a distinguished career! Recently I heard him play the third movement from Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #18. For me, …
Johannes Brahms’ Serenade #2
Johannes Brahms was a man quite in awe of the legacy of Beethoven. He was a composer who initially thought himself unworthy to carry on in the footsteps of the giant even though that was …