The Brahms Concerto in B-flat, in four movements rather than the usual three, opens with a marvelous, mood-setting horn call that seems to gather all the other instruments, with the piano responding to its graceful …
The premiere of this concert took place on November 28, 1909, with Rachmaninoff as soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Some weeks later, it would be heard in New York again, this time with …
The Arabesque #1 by Claude Debussy was composed in 1891. The “Deux Arabesques” were the first solo piano works published by the young Debussy; he was still in his 20s. Well over 100,000 copies of …