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The piano sonata #27 by Beethoven is a two-movement work, and each movement is prefaced by tempo indications in German instead of Italian. The tempo indications had traditionally been given in Italian because the first …

Schubert wrote his String Quartet in C major, D. 46, between the 3rd and 7th March 1813. The first movement starts with an obvious echo of Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet, with its chromatically descending Baroque motif. …

Unlike other other composers, Rachmaninoff did not publish his preludes in a single ordered set. He wrote the first Prelude in 1892 at age 19 as part of his Opus 3, Morceaux de fantaisie (“Fantasy …

Pianist Krystian Zimerman won the prestigious Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw at the age of eighteen and was catapulted to the forefront of international attention in the music world. He has worked with many great …

The CD of the Month for January 2020 features the Hallé orchestra under Sir Mark Elder who bring us an excellent Debussy album with works from across the composer’s career. Recorded following the highly acclaimed Proms …