Brahms’ Piano Trio #1
At the beginning of 1854, after his soaring fortunes at age 21, Johannes Brahms set out to write his Trio in B major for Piano, Violin and Cello. The trio was originally issued in November …
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Yuja Wang Plays the “Rach 3”
The Piano Concerto #3 by Rachmaninov has earned a reputation as one of the most technically daunting of all the standard piano concertos, and pianists have often cited it as a sort of Everest they …
Yuja Wang Plays the Brahms Piano Concerto #1
The creation of this piano concerto occupied Johannes Brahms for at least five years. After beginning it as a two-piano sonata in 1854, he soon realized that the musical material required orchestral inclusion. Following this …
Yuja Wang and friends have fun
Music as a career involves hard work, sacrifices, and more hard work. And now, during COVID, things are much worse… There are a few rare times when musicians can clown around, and that’s good for …
Yuja Wang Plays the Bizet/Horowitz Variations on Carmen
George Bizet composed his opera, Carmen, in 1874. During the lengthy rehearsals for the first performance, Bizet fought hard against a reluctant management to retain the earthy realism of the story of Carmen, the cigarette-factory girl …