Today I’d like to share with you Cello Concerto in B Minor, by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). As I was listening to this piece, I was amazed at how American parts of it sounded. I could suddenly see a home ..
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Today I’d like to share with you Cello Concerto in B Minor, by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). As I was listening to this piece, I was amazed at how American parts of it sounded. I could suddenly see a home ..
Today I would like to share with you short piano pieces composed by the Jewish German composer Felix Mendelssohn. They are called Songs Without Words. I’d like to zoom in on one in particular, Opus 19b-6.
Today we are going to conclude (at least for now) our exploration into the symphonies of Anton Bruckner with his last symphony, No. 8. It took me probably twenty listens to understand this symphony. Bruckner’s ..
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of emails (more than usual) from readers thanking me for including classical music with my articles and sending out Saturday music. (If you are not subscribing to my music-only ..
Sergey Rachmaninoff wrote Vocalise in 1912 for soprano and piano. The soprano part has no words, just a single vowel continuously sung throughout this short, six-minute piece. This masterpiece has been transcribed ..
Recently a reader shared a piano concerto performed by then-eleven-year-old Alma Deutscher from Britain. I was glad to see this young virtuoso, but with shows like America’s Got Talent and Britain’s Got Talent, ..
Today I would like to share with you Romance for Viola and Orchestra, by German composer Max Bruch (1838-1920). The viola is the violin’s more petite and sadder cousin. My niece Irene studied the violin ..
Someone recently asked whether I think of myself as Russian, or American. My initial response (without thinking) was – American. But as I gave this question more thought I realized that the answer is more complex. ..
Today I would like to share with you two overtures, one from the opera The Marriage of Figaro, composed in 1786 by Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the other from the opera The Barber of Seville, composed ..
Not until I started to include musical notes with my emails and started to write and think about it did I realize what an important role music plays in my life. Sometimes certain musical pieces almost serve as a bookmark ..