Spotlight Tchaikovsky: “Romeo and Juliet”
Like many of his early masterworks, Tchaikovsky’s overture “Romeo and Juliet” had a difficult genesis...
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Composers
Spotlight Strauss: “Don Quixote”
“Don Quixote” is a sort of a mixture between a tone poem, based on Cervantes’ satirical novel “Don Quijote de la Mancha”, and a sinfonia concertante...
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Spotlight Bizet: “Carmen”
Although Georges Bizet was a stunning piano virtuoso and composed various operas and orchestral works, he is often seen...
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Spotlight Mascagni: “Cavalleria rusticana”
“Cavalleria Rusticana” is an Italian classic and by far the most popular work by Pietro Mascagni...
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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 Ravel: “Daphnis et Chloé”
Maurice Ravel’s longest piece is “Daphnis et Chloé”. Lasting more or less an hour, it was written for Sergei Diaghilev’s “Ballets Russes” between 1909 and 1912...
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