Tag: Leos Janacek

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI

    PROGRAM NOTES: ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI

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    Robert Schumann Waldszenen Op. 82 It is not by chance that Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischütz, the founding work of German musical Romanticism, is set in a forest. Nor is it a coincidence that German Romantic poets from Ludwig Tieck to Joseph von Eichendorff and Heinrich Heine extolled the deep spiritual joys of…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: CHARLIE ALBRIGHT

    PROGRAM NOTES: CHARLIE ALBRIGHT

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      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 “character pieces”. Cultivated by composers of the Romantic era, these pieces present a simple musical idea in an intimate lyrical style with the…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: AUGUSTIN HADELICH

    PROGRAM NOTES: AUGUSTIN HADELICH

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      Robert Schumann: Violin sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 Schumann wrote both of his completed sonatas for violin and piano in 1851. His wife Clara played the piano parts at their public premieres with violinists Ferdinand David (No. 1 in 1852) and Joseph Joachim (No. 2 in 1853). Though frequently recorded, these…