It’s a perfect assortment of situations for the summer: running in wild water, mediating at night in a difficult situation, and then flying above it all. American composer Mark Edwards Wilson (b. 1948) describes the works as ‘my latest approach

The legendary pianist and composer John Field (1782-1837), born somewhere between Beethoven and Schubert, was a new pianist for a new era. He is credited with writing music in a style closer to Chopin‘s and with inventing the nocturne. Field’s

Every music history buff knows the infamous London operatic showdown of the 1720s. It was the ultimate Baroque cage match: the heavyweight George Frideric Handel in one corner, and the elegant, Italian hitmaker Giovanni Battista Bononcini in the other. The

Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Moonlight Sonata is one of the most famous pieces of music ever written. Even if you’re not a classical music lover, you have almost certainly heard it – in a film, in an ad, or drifting out

In all, Francis Poulenc composed 15 Improvisations between 1932 and 1959. They emerged not as a continuous set but as four volumes. Musically, they balance music-hall charm with the composer’s delicate lyricism. Improvisation No. 15 in C minor, subtitled “L’hommage

French violinist Ginette Neveu was widely considered to be one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century: a prodigy who graduated from the Paris Conservatoire as a child, beat David Oistrakh in an international competition at 15, and spent

Switzerland’s most prominent composer, Ernest Bloch, was born July 24, 1880, in Geneva. He emigrated to the United States and assumed the directorship of the Cleveland Institute of Music, later of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and of the

Described by critics as an “…immensely gifted pianist… with prodigious technique, myriad shadings, and scrupulous accuracy,” Vitaly Pisarenko came to international attention for winning First Prize at the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, and Third Prize at