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Orchestra
Bernini's famous fountains are filled with Respighi's music

Fontane di Roma is a symphonic poem written by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi in 1916. It depicts Rome’s…

May 6, 2018
Orchestra
Saint-Saëns' French horn Romance in hand-free performance

Camille Saint-Saëns was an anomaly among French composers of the 19th century due to his proficiency in writing for all…

May 5, 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
Orchestra
The misty seascape embodied in Mendelssohn's surging overture

The Hebrides, also called Hebrides Overture or Overture to the Lonely Isle, is an orchestra piece by Felix Mendelssohn,…

April 21, 2018
Classical Guitar
The scent of magnolia permeating Joaquin Rodrigo's concerto

It may come as a revelation that Joaquin Rodrigo wasn’t a guitarist, despite his contributions to the guitar repertoire…

April 19, 2018
Collaboration
Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass find a colorful meeting point for European and Indian classics

Almost three decades have passed since Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar collaborated and released the work Passages - a…

April 17, 2018
Oboe
Corelli's famous violin piece rearranged for oboe three centuries later

One of the seminal figures of early Baroque, Arcangelo Corelli, was the master of violin which supremacy in the…

April 14, 2018
Orchestra
Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip

Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most performed of all American concert pieces, and its opening clarinet glissando is the…

April 12, 2018
Orchestra
Beethoven was inspired by Goethe’s rhythmic poetry

From 1809 to 1810, Beethoven composed the overture to Goethe’s play Egmont, depicting the life of the count of Egmont,…

April 8, 2018
Collaboration
Metallica with San Francisco Symphony: fresh & heavy atmosphere of modern opera

It seemed like Metallica were running out of ideas at the end of the millennium. However, in 1999, they released S&M, a…

April 6, 2018
Film
The Shape of Water bringing Alexandre Desplat his second Oscar trophy

Romantic fantasy film looks at the relationship between a mute woman who works at a government survey facility in…

April 3, 2018
Trumpet
First solo trumpet piece in history belongs to German multi-instrumentalist

The Concerto in D major for trumpet, violins, and basso continuo, is a shiny eight-minute work composed by Georg…

April 1, 2018
Orchestra
The Third Norfolk Rhapsody, lost a hundred years ago, was reconstructed recently

Vaughan Williams composed three Norfolk Rhapsodies in 1905 and 1906, shaping them on folk melodies he had gathered…

March 31, 2018
Orchestra
The sounds of scenic Iceland in the Aeriality orchestral piece

Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Icelandic composer whose music is now often played around Europe and the US, captivating the…

March 28, 2018
Orchestra
Beethoven's Romances uncover his staggering violin skills

Beethoven was a very skillful violinist. Although not a proficient musician, he possessed a deep passion for and…

March 27, 2018
Choir
Josquin des Prez: pioneer in the Franco-Flemish School of music

Josquin des Prez was the leading architect of the point of imitation style, in which a motif introduced in one voice is…

March 25, 2018
Orchestra
Brandenburg Concerto dedicated to the king's brother was never played at Brandenburg court

The Brandenburg Concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach are considered an example from the new era of masterful…

March 24, 2018
Orchestra
Reverie: cello reimagining of Claude Debussy by Julian Lloyd Webber

Reverie is one of the first works written by Debussy for piano. Even at this early stage of his career, with the style…

March 23, 2018
Orchestra
Albinoni's famous Adagio is unusually solemn and offbeat because it wasn't, in fact, written by Tomaso Albinoni

Adagio in G Minor, attributed to 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, is widely familiar through its often use…

March 20, 2018
Orchestra
Peaceful sound for troubling times in The Lark Ascending

Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending is a contemplative and tender tone poem composed as a reaction to George Meredith…

March 19, 2018
Orchestra
Vivaldi's Bohemian Concerto was the last gift for the dying lute

Within Antonio Vivaldi's creative period, the lute was going out of fashion as the lead solo instrument, though its…

March 17, 2018
Orchestra
Walks along Moldau river ended in the greatest symphonic poem of all time

Bedřich Smetana conceived a series of orchestral pieces based on the legends and landscapes of his homeland entitled Má…

March 14, 2018
Orchestra
The ever-evolving legend of Coriolanus

The Coriolan Overture, written by Ludwig van Beethoven, is an adaptation of Heinrich Joseph von Collin's tragedy…

March 8, 2018
Football
UEFA Champions League theme is an adaption of George Händel's royal coronation anthem

One of George Händel's best-known pieces, Zadok the Priest, has been traditionally performed during the anointing of…

March 7, 2018
Contemporary Composer
Glassworks by Philip Glass is flavored with Bach and Bowie

Philip Glass is an American composer, widely considered to be one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th…

March 6, 2018
Violin
Vintage performance of Vivaldi's concerto for four violins

Antonio Vivaldi wrote many concerts for violin, but only a few for four violin soloists. Concerto for Four Violins was…

March 6, 2018