Tag: Brahms

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ANDREAS BRANTELID & SHAI WOSNER

    PROGRAM NOTES: ANDREAS BRANTELID & SHAI WOSNER

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    Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano Few works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) bear generic titles like symphony, quartet, concerto or sonata. Most have descriptive or evocative titles like Printemps, Jeux, Claire de lune, La mer, Nocturnes or Ibéria. Since chamber music tends, more than any other, to rely on the traditional forms of classical…

  • MURRAY PERAHIA…REMINISCENCES

    MURRAY PERAHIA…REMINISCENCES

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    Murray Perahia first came onto my radar in 1972 when he won the Leeds International Piano Competition. I knew Murray’s playing through his recordings but didn’t have the opportunity to hear him live for the first time until 1983, when on a visit to London I was able to attend a recital he gave at…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: SHOSTAKOVICH PRELUDES AND FUGUES

    PROGRAM NOTES: SHOSTAKOVICH PRELUDES AND FUGUES

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    Dmitri Shostakovich: 12 Preludes and Fugues from Op. 87 Like many of the great composers before him (Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, among others), Shostakovich possessed the skills of a keyboard virtuoso, and might well have sustained a successful career as such. Among his prizes was one from the First International Chopin…