American composer Michael Torke (b. 1961) has simply accomplished a brand new concerto for solo violin and string orchestra merely…
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Every Friday we choose a monitor from a Naxos Music Group album launched twenty years in the past to offer…
As a teen, Richard Wagner developed a fascination with Goethe’s Faust. Allegedly, on the age of 16, Wagner hid a replica…
4’33” stays essentially the most well-known work of the American composer and theorist, John Cage (1912-1992). The experimental piece, composed…
With their sense of serene detachment, hypnotic repeating rhythms, and harmonic stasis, Erik Satie’s Trois Gymnopédies opened the door to a…
Florence Value’s abiding curiosity within the literary arts helps clarify the terribly giant variety of vocal compositions in her catalogue…
The critic Claude Rostand famously noticed, “In Poulenc there’s something of the monk and one thing of the rascal.” We…
Nathan Milstein (1903-1992) was one of the crucial elegant and innately gifted violinists of the 20th century. The biographer Boris…
Right this moment marks the centennial of the start of Canadian jazz virtuoso pianist and composer Oscar Peterson (1925-2007). Herbie…
The rhythmic sample of animal and human motion fashioned the inspiration for Gait, a 2012 orchestral tone poem by American…