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Grace Williams / Carillions (1965)
1. Moderato con moto 2. Allegretto alla pavana 3. Lento Rapsodico 4. Allegro agitato Carillions by Grace Mary Williams (1906-1977) is one...
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ritafernandes2028
- Nov 29, 2020
- 2 min
Richard Strauss / Metamorphosis for 23 Strings (1945)
Richard Strauss' (1864-1947) 'Metamorphosen for 23 Strings' (1945), premiered in 1946 in Zürich. The piece was dedicated to the...
Oran Johnson
- Nov 22, 2020
- 6 min
Gustav Mahler / Symphony #9 - 1. Andante comodo (1912)
After beginning his post as conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, late romantic Austro-Bohemian composer Gustav Mahler would...
Jonathan Davies
- Nov 15, 2020
- 5 min
Conlon Nancarrow / Studies for Player Piano (1948-1992)
These notes introduce the studies for player piano and consider some of their performance impossibilities.
ritafernandes2028
- Nov 8, 2020
- 5 min
Ludwig van Beethoven / Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (1808)
This symphony celebrates the humility and grace of nature. Being explicitly programmatic, it stands alone among Beethoven's other symphonies
Peter Havlat
- Nov 1, 2020
- 4 min
Francis Poulenc / Sonate pour Flûte et Piano (1957)
A brief background and
description of Poulenc's celebrated sonata for flute and piano.
Phoebus Kyriakoudis
- Oct 24, 2020
- 8 min
Dmitri Schostakovich / Symphony No.5 (1937)
Shostakovich responds to the harsh critique by the Stalinist regime of his time with a work both devastating and enticing.
Zack Dickerson
- Oct 18, 2020
- 5 min
Richard Wagner / Wesendonck Lieder (1858)
The Wesendonck Lieder represent a key moment in Wagner’s life. They explore illicit love, 19th-century philosophy, and a new musical style.
ritafernandes2028
- Oct 11, 2020
- 5 min
Alban Berg / Lulu (1935)
An ingenious mix of contemporary techniques, operatic legacy and cultural developments, Lulu explores sexuality in often brutal ways.
Zack Dickerson
- Oct 4, 2020
- 4 min
Ludwig van Beethoven / An die ferne Geliebte (1816)
A look at Beethoven's song cycle in celebration of his 250th birthyear and examining its romantic and revolutionary nature.
ritafernandes2028
- Sep 27, 2020
- 4 min
Jacob Kirkegaard / 4 Rooms (2006)
Layered sound recordings of four separate rooms in the post-Chernobyl 'alienation zone' by Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard.
Phoebus Kyriakoudis
- Sep 20, 2020
- 8 min
Manos Xatzidakis / For a Little White Seashell (1947)
A suite for piano
that illustrates the dialogue of the old and new in search for emotional truth
in post-war Greek music.
ritafernandes2028
- Sep 13, 2020
- 5 min
Richard Strauss / Also Sprach Zarathustra (1896)
This tone poem of epic proportions goes above and beyond in musically translating Nietzsche's novel of the same name.
ritafernandes2028
- Sep 6, 2020
- 5 min
Alban Berg / Altenberg Lieder Op.4 (1912)
Rita Fernandes / Based on Peter Altenberg's picture-postcard texts, these songs explore Berg's short-lived aphoristic style.
ritafernandes2028
- Aug 30, 2020
- 3 min
Schoenberg and Webern: Viennese Explorations
Rita Fernandes / Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No.1 and Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra
ritafernandes2028
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Johannes Brahms / Symphony No.1 (1876)
Rita Fernandes / The story of this symphony begins long before Brahms' birth, but instead at that of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...