Intermezzo Opus 117 #2 by Johannes Brahms
Some years ago, while I was living at the California coast, I enjoyed my role as a radio host for classical music. In one case, I was the host for a show at radio host …
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Simon Rattle Conducts Mozart’s Piano Concerto #18
The year 1784 was an amazing one for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as far as the composition of keyboard concertos is concerned. In a notebook that he began keeping that year and would maintain for the …
Bernard Haitink Conducts Beethoven’s Symphony #3
Beethoven’s Third Symphony is regarded as a turning point in musical history, and it marks the beginning of his career’s second period. Beethoven’s ideas for the “Eroica” began during his tumultuous “Heiligenstadt Testament” period, but …
Yitzhak Perlman Performs the Violin Concerto by Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B Minor Op. 61 premiered on in 1910, marking one of the pinnacles of his career. The first performance was given by Fritz Kreisler, with Elgar conducting the London Symphony …
Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto
Edward Elgar wrote his Violin Concerto in B-Minor in 1910. It was one of his last works to gain immediate popular success. Fritz Kreisler was the soloist at the premier in London. It was Elgar …