For two musicians who have spent so much time in the recording studio, you’d be forgiven if you’ve never actually heard any of their own material. I’m not talking about some grand creative block or obsessive perfectionism hindering their output
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Chopin’s gales, Liszt’s blizzard, Debussy’s footsteps in snow
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Winter has inspired some of the most evocative music in the solo piano repertoire. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, composers often turned to the piano to capture winter’s many moods: biting wind, falling snow, frozen landscapes, and the
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Paintings in Carl Schimmel’s String Quartet No. 2, “Six Faces” The paintings in Carl Schimmel’s Second String Quartet, Six Faces, are all Cubist works painted between 1911 and 1920. The 4 women and 2 men are shown with their belongings:
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Tchaikovsky wintered in Rome in 1879–80 and began what he first imagined as an Italian suite on folk melodies. Conductor Ionel Perlea recorded it in Vienna's Musikverein in 1956 with an intriguing ad hoc orchestra. Have a listen!
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During the 19th century, Beethoven and his affinity for the piano sonata – he wrote 32 in all – made a major mark on the era’s music. Composers from every decade were in constant conversation with Beethoven’s piano sonatas: quoting
