For first-time listeners, Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 in E minor might be stunning and expectation-shattering. Composed in 1884, Brahms’…
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In 1909, the Revue musicale mensuelle de la Société Internationale de Musique commissioned six French composers to write down items in commemoration…
Every Friday we choose a observe from a Naxos Music Group album launched twenty years in the past to offer…
Composed through the war-torn summer time of 1943, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor makes an attempt to take…
Composed in 1917, initially as a suite for solo piano, Le Tombeau de Couperin was Maurice Ravel’s musical response to the…
Composed in 1906, Charles Ives’ Hallowe’en evokes childhood reminiscences of a rising bonfire and playful mischief. Ives wrote, It’s a take-off…
Every Friday we choose a monitor from a Naxos Music Group album launched twenty years in the past to supply…
Hearken to the cosmic, elemental opening of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, and it’s possible you’ll be reminded of up to date…
Set in Egypt round 80 BC, Handel’s Berenice tells the story of the Egyptian Queen’s involvement in a convoluted romantic net…
Sergei Prokofiev’s satirical 1921 opera tells the fairytale story of a younger prince who’s cursed by a witch to fall…