Suite

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Flute
Badinerie: origins of Bach's famous flute suite

Badinerie—the final movement of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor—is rightfully recognized as one of the best…

June 30, 2022
Piano
Estampes: the world cultures of Debussy's imagination

Estampes, conceived as a three-piece piano suite by the French Impressionist Claude Debussy, is rightfully recognized…

February 17, 2022
Piano
Le Tombeau de Couperin: Ravel's only wartime piece shaped by Baroque canons

The musical output of the leading French impressionist Maurice Ravel was almost completely halted by the arrival of…

June 11, 2021
Piano
Miroirs: Ravel's piano suite that put his avant-garde friends to work

Miroirs or Mirrors is an essential piano suite by the French impressionist Maurice Ravel, each movement of which is…

April 14, 2021
Piano
Suite bergamasque: did Debussy record his best-known piano piece?

Suite bergamasque is one of the best-known piano works of the French impressionist Claude Debussy written in 1890 and…

March 12, 20211 comment
Orchestra
La Marcho di Rei: L'Arlesienne opening theme harks back to Provencal Christmas carol

The origin of the iconic theme in the energetic opening of Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne is still unclear. Presumably,…

December 24, 2020
Orchestra
Capriol Suite: early dances arranged for modern orchestra by Peter Warlock

The Capriol Suite is one of the most popular works by the 20th century English composer Philip Arnold Heseltine who…

October 15, 2020
Classical Guitar
Moreno Torroba as the first-ever Spanish non-guitarist who composed for solo guitar

Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spanish composer adored by his contemporaries largely for his stage works, especially the…

September 13, 20207 comments
Nature Sounds
8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not…

August 23, 2020
Orchestra
Abdelazer: Purcell's suite for the failed play gained popularity thanks to Britten's arrangement for children

Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge, is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn who is considered to be one of the first known English…

October 27, 2019
Synthesizer
The analog synthesizers of Isao Tomita programming fresh sound for all-time classics

Japanese composer Isao Tomita was one of the first to explore analog synthesizers in search for new sounds that would…

July 10, 2019
Classical Guitar
Giulio Regondi, the guitar prodigy behind early Romantic repertoire, was conned by false parent

Giulio Regondi was one of the most virtuosic guitarists of the early Romantic period who began earning flattering…

June 29, 20199 comments
Orchestra
Traditions of 3 countries woven into the music of neglected Asian composer Chiang Wen-Yeh

The life path of the prominent Asian composer Chiang Wen-Yeh is closely connected to the three countries—Taiwan, Japan,…

May 18, 2019
Flute
The early collaboration of flute and viol in the court of Versailles

In one of his marvelous court paintings, André Bouys depicts four prominent composers working on a composition for…

May 1, 20195 comments
Viol
Bach and Abel: a collaboration that lived in two generations of composers

The prominent German composer and multi-instrumentalist Carl Friedrich Abel was born into an extraordinary musical…

April 7, 20191 comment
Violin
Ma Sicong sentenced to exile after seeking Chinese harmony for his violin

One of the most gifted Chinese violinists, Ma Sicong endured a challenging fate when he was forced to flee the Cultural…

March 19, 2019
Piano
Mussorgsky's pictures redrawn for the prog rock exhibition

Piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition written by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874 retains its innovative…

March 5, 2019
Flute
Japanese traditions meet Western avant-garde in reflective tunes of Toshio Hosokawa

Japanese contemporary composer of extraordinary aerial themes, Toshio Hosokawa, draws inspiration from the ancient…

March 1, 2019
Ney
Ottoman heritage captured in music manuscripts of Bobowski

The oldest known examples of Ottoman music notation can be found in a few manuscripts compiled by composer and polyglot…

February 19, 2019
Orchestra
The vital source of Lutheran music by Andreas Hammerschmidt

Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German composer and organist of Bohemian birth whose works played an important part in the…

January 15, 2019
Chalumeau
German maestro ordered all his music to be set on fire

Christoph Graupner (1683–1760) was one of the principal German composers of the period shared by J.S. Bach and Georg…

October 2, 2018
Piano
Choosing career in music got Rameau expelled from school

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) was one of the truly multifaceted French composers and theorists, with his theoretical…

August 12, 2018
Orchestra
Things Lost In The Fire: Norwegian folk of Geirr Tveitt

The very mindful application of folk music to classical during the early 20th century became a global trend since every…

August 11, 2018
Classical Guitar
The voice that carried guitar over the barriers of Cultural Revolution

Born in Beijing following the Cultural Revolution—during which Western music and instruments were banned—Xuefei Yang…

August 7, 2018
Orchestra
Mother of film score genre learned music through BBC radio broadcasts

Doreen Mary Carwithen, also known as Mary Alwyn, was the first student to be selected from the Royal Academy to join an…

June 23, 2018
Cello
Bach's brilliant cello suites survived thanks to Anna Magdalena

The Bach collection of six suites for solo cello may have been written around 1720 as basic practice pieces intended to…

June 1, 20181 comment
Classical Guitar
Granada: Albéniz's tribute for the city of guitar craft

The first piano solo of Isaac Albéniz, Suite Española, is probably the first testimony of the artistic renaissance of…

May 16, 2018
Orchestra
Grieg's exquisite Norwegian cocktail of mountains, forests and sea

Edvard Grieg composed the large body of his music surrounded by the scenic landscapes of the Hardanger fjord. Grieg's…

April 29, 2018
Orchestra
Gustav Holst's famous folk suite was dedicated to his students

Gustavus Theodore von Holst, a highly original and inventive composer, was born in England in 1874. Holst was appointed…

April 22, 2018
Classical Guitar
What kind of music did Louis XIV like?

Robert de Visée’s music remains among some of the best examples of French Baroque guitar music to this day. Visée's…

March 18, 2018