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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Four Songs The earliest German lieder we have in the concert repertoire come from the more than 30 works that Mozart wrote between 1768 (at the age of twelve!) and his death in 1791. His mature songs … Continue reading
When I was a boy my father would sing me to sleep every night. And when he went away on business trips, my mother sang to me at night instead. Now, my mother, whom I love dearly (98 and going … Continue reading
The Art of Fugue Fugue is the Rubikâs cube of compositional genres. Itâs the sort of thing that only the âbrainiestâ of modern composers, one with a bent for antiquarian curiosities, would attempt. And yet in its golden age in … Continue reading
By Christian Gerhaher This programme of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe set to music by Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Rihm was conceived as a tribute to the eight great poetic hymns written during the poetâs Sturm und Drang period … Continue reading
Eugène YsaĂże⨠Sonata for solo violin in G minor, Op. 27, No. 1 Belgian violinist and composer Eugène YsaĂże stands asâ¨a bridge figure between the late Romantic era of virtuoso violinists such as Henri Vieuxtemps and Henryk Wieniawski (he studied … Continue reading
Franz Schubert Impromptus Op. 90, Nos. 1-4 The impromptu is just one of a number of small-scale instrumental genres arising in the early 19th century, known under the collective title of âcharacter piecesâ. Cultivated by composers of the Romantic … Continue reading
Ludwig van Beethoven⨠Sonata for cello & piano in C major, Op. 102, No. 1 Those who think of sonata form as a well-organized dinner plate â with the red meat in one corner, the mashed potatoes stationed opposite, and … Continue reading
Franz Schubert Sonatina for violin & piano in A minor D. 385 It humbles me to think, paraphrasing Tom Lehrer, that when Schubert was my age, he had already been dead for several decades. Lest I forget, there are his … Continue reading
The golden age of English lute song coincides with the public career of lutenist and composer John Dowland â and not by chance: from the publication of his First Booke of Songes in 1597 until his death in 1626, … Continue reading
CONCERT #1 Johannes Brahms String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1 If there was one great figure in European music that Brahms revered more than any other, that figure was Ludwig van Beethoven. With the Great Masterâs bust … Continue reading
