Anne-Sophie Mutter Plays Mozart’s Sonata KV301
Mozart composed the first of a set of six sonatas for violin and piano in 1778. The Sonata in G major, K. 301, consists of only two movements—an Allegro con spirito sonata movement and an …
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Mitsuko Uchida’s Connection With Vienna
Mitsuko Uchida studied piano as a young child, but her more serious musical training began in earnest after her family moved to Vienna when Uchida was 12 years old. There she enrolled in the Vienna …
Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Winds KV 297
From Mozart’s letters to his father we know that in 1778, during his stay in Paris, he wrote a Sinfonia concertante for flute, oboe, horn, bassoon and orchestra, for a quartet of wind instrumentalists likewise …
Bernstein as Piano Soloist
The name “Leonard Bernstein” usually raises an image of Bernstein the conductor, the educator, or the speaker. Keep in mind, however, that as a young lad he began to play the piano quite a long …
Sviatoslav Richter Plays Three Mozart Sonatas
Sviatoslav Richter’s great love as a young man was opera, and his remarkable sight reading skills permitted him to play operatic scores he had never seen before. He was thus able to secure a job …