Samuel Barber composed his violin concerto in 1939. The nature of its genesis, including external factors, led to the aspect that is the unusual: the seeming incongruity between the character of the first two movements …

Schubert began composing his Piano Trio in B-flat in 1827, the year before his death, and worked on it simultaneously with the song cycle Die Winterreise. Perhaps Schubert needed a lighter project to divert his …

The origin of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is as follows: The ambassador to Saxony, often visited Leipzig. Among his servants there was a talented young man, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg – a harpsichordist (Cembalist) who was a …

Claude Debussy’s trio is a full-fledged four movement work with a prevailing French style characterized by lyricism, clarity and gentle sensibility that is charming more than dramatic. The earlier trios of Cesar Franck and Saint-säens …

Lucia Popp made her stage debut as a singer at age 23 at the Bratislava Opera singing the role of Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. In 1963 Herbert von Karajan heard her …