Janine Jansen Archive

The Lark Ascending, a tone poem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, was first performed in London on June 14, 1921. The piece was scored for solo violin and piano in 1914 and revised by …

Not published until 1851, this work of Schubert’s early maturity fully deserves the designation “duo” appended by the publisher; unlike Schubert’s earlier works for violin and piano, this sonata makes the keyboard a full partner …

The long first movement of the Brahms violin concert features sequences of turbulent emotion, sometimes interwoven and sometimes quick-cut with dreamy lyricism. The Adagio is justly famous for the great oboe melody at its foundation. …

The Octet in F major is the largest of Schubert’s chamber works in instrumentation and duration. He composed it in March 1824 at the same time as he was writing the string quartets Rosamunde D …

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was already ill with the cancer which prematurely ended his life, when he began to compose his Violin Sonata in G minor. He began to sketch the work in 1916 and completed …