ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Keep calm and listen Mozart, Schubert, Debussy and Bach
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A Heavyweight Musical Boxing Match
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A Key to the Brahms Sound
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Does She Really Love Him?: The Berio Ending for Turandot
Berio takes us to the cynical 21st century, where even love is tinged with irony.
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Invisible and Visible: An Interview With Roger Vignoles
The qualities needed to be an accompanist
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The Song of the Nightingale
Felix Mendelssohn and Jenny Lind “Jenny Lind has fairly enchanted me; she is unique in her way..." -
The Genius of Claude Debussy
"Debussy at the piano! One had to have seen it to appreciate its magic..."
MUSIC OF THE WEEK
The Italian Serenade began life as a simple Serenade in G major, but by April 1890, Wolf had changed its name. Written for string quartet, it was originally intended to be a standard 4-movement work, but because of the death of his father so shortly after completing this, it was left as a one-movement work.