Spotlight Mascagni: “Cavalleria rusticana”
“Cavalleria Rusticana” is an Italian classic and by far the most popular work by Pietro Mascagni...
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Composers
Spotlight Rachmaninoff: The second piano concerto
Sergei Rachmaninoff was one of the last pure late-romantic composers, a stunning virtuoso and altogether one of the great musicians of his time...
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Spotlight Verdi: The Requiem
Verdi’s „Messa da Requiem“ is the greatest work of 19th-century sacred Italian music and his most important work apart from the operas...
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Spotlight Webern: four orchestral works
Anton von Webern is one the most important composers of the 20th century and perhaps the most enigmatic...
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Spotlight Reger: “The Mozart Variations”
Max Reger's contemporary Schoenberg thought him to be a genius no less and studied his works, Prokofiev and Hindemith admired him - Reger is the typical case...
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Spotlight Beethoven: “Missa Solemnis”
A major work in the oeuvre of its composer, hence a major work in musical history – Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis”. The majestic composition that Beethoven himself thought of...
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Spotlight Strauss: “An Alpine Symphony”
Richard Strauss’ “An Alpine Symphony“ is a symphonic poem that was first performed in 1915. It is his longest orchestral work...
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Spotlight Tchaikovsky: The piano concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto No.1 in B flat minor is arguably the most popular solo concerto of all. The triumphant introduction is one of the famous beginnings in classical music...
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Spotlight Mozart: “The Magic Flute”
“The Magic Flute” is arguably the most popular opera of all time. It had a special significance at several turning points in Karajan’s career (and because of his importance for the development of classical recording)...
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Spotlight Mendelssohn: The orchestral works
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was one of the most important and influential composers in the first half of the 19th century, admired by Goethe, Schumann, Wagner and Berlioz, a genius, a prodigy and a European celebrity...
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