In classical music, the Romantic Era lasted from around 1810 to around 1910. That century gave us some of the most famous symphonies in the repertoire. Nineteenth-century composers like Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvořák, Schubert, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and others elevated the symphony
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Bells, Op. 35 March 10th, 2016 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) spent much of his childhood and youth in the Russian countryside. For the rest of his life, he would vividly remember a childhood resonating with the beautiful and exotic sounds of ringing bells. Rachmaninoff writes in 1913, -
Muses and Musings
That American Woman! Robert Schumann and Mary Potts-Perkins March 9th, 2016On 14 October 1850, Robert and Clara Schumann played host to Mary Potts and her husband John Perkins in Düsseldorf. The visiting couple had married in New York just months early, and was looking to spend their honeymoon in Europe. -
No talking in the stalls please! March 8th, 2016 Recently I gave a concert in a local church. The audience was small, but they listened attentively and seemed genuinely engaged by the music. All except one person (someone who is connected to me through marriage – but not, I -
Minors of the Majors
Gabriel Fauré: String Quartet, Op. 121 March 7th, 2016“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening! -
Full Piano Access March 6th, 2016 Scattered in moveable sites around the streets and buildings of Hong Kong are decorated pianos that are all part of an international piano artwork by artist Luke Jerram. Since 2008, in more than 47 cities around the world, 1,500 street -
Music and Art: Varèse and Le Corbusier March 6th, 2016 In 1958, the French composer Edgard Varèse, working with the architect Le Corbusier and his assistant, the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, created a music soundscape for the Philips Electronics Pavilion at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. -
Animals in Music: Birds March 5th, 2016 We all know about Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, and Schubert’s Trout, but what other animals lurk in the musical forests? -
How You Should Feel in the Key of G Major March 4th, 2016 The Austrian composer and pianist Ernst Pauer (1826-1905) was a student of Mozart’s son, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, before moving to London in 1851. He was one of the first piano professors at the Royal College of Music and also