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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Liszt - Symphonic Poem 'Hamlet'
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The symphonic poems of Franz Liszt have garnered their share of interpretation of meaning. Of course they are all a type of music written...
Saint-Saëns - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
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Camille Saint-Saëns was a natural musician, one of those who was born to make and create music. As he said himself, "I produce music ...
Monday, December 26, 2011
Roussel - Symphony No. 3
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Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937) was a French composer and somewhat of a rarity. His first love in his youth was not music, but mathematics. H...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
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With his usual Romantic hyperbole, Richard Wagner called Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 the "apotheosis of the dance". As Wagn...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Alkan - Le festin d'Ésope (Aesop's Feast)
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Charles Alkan's set of etudes in all the minor keys is a work of staggering proportions. The first etude is a flurry of 16th note tr...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Glazunov - Symphony No. 1
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Alexander Glazunov has been called the Russian Brahms, which may or may not be a good comparison to either composer. He was one of the mos...
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Moscheles - Piano Concerto No. 7 ' Pathétique '
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Ignaz Moscheles (1794 - 1870) was a Bohemian composer and pianist. He was born in Prague and showed a remarkable musical aptitude early on...
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