Yuja Wang Plays For You
Yuja Wang was born in Beijing on February 10, 1987. An only child, she grew up with a dancer mother and percussionist father. She took up the piano at six, was identified as a major …
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Intermezzo Opus 117, #2 by Johannes Brahms
Brahms composed his Intermezzi Opus 117 together with his Fantasien Op.116 during a short stay at Bad Ischl in Austria. This set is even more introspective compared to the previous opus. When Brahms sent this …
Michelangeli Performs Scarlatti’s Sonata in C-Major
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli began studying violin at age three. He later entered the Milan Conservatory as a piano student of Giuseppe Anfossi, graduating at age 14. In 1939 he won first prize at the Geneva …
Rudolf Serkin Plays Beethoven’s Concerto #4
I listened with great pleasure to this performance by pianist Rudolf Serkin yesterday. I was astounded at the beauty of the music, particularly the second movement… It must have been a shock for the audience …
Sviatoslav Richter in a Beethoven Piano Recital
Sviatoslav Richter was born in Zhitomir, Russia but grew up in Odessa. Unusually, he was largely self-taught although his organist father provided him with a basic education in music. Even at an early age, Richter …