Johannes Brahms twice chose a theme by his friend and mentor Robert Schumann as the basis for piano variations. While the Variations op. 9 were composed for piano solo, as an exception he wrote Opus 2...
Bartók began work on his Sixth String Quartet in the summer of 1939 as a guest of Paul Sacher in the idyllic Swiss mountain village of Saanen, before the impending outbreak of war drove him first to B...
The occasion for the composition, described as a “suite in the old style”, was the 200th birthday of the Norwegian-Danish poet Ludvik Holberg (1684-1754), which was celebrated in Bergen with several f...
“Music begins where the word loses its power to express.” Claude Debussy A stylish daily helper for securing messages, photos, and postcards or simply as a colourful accent on refrigerators, music sta...
“Music is enough for a whole lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.” Sergei Rachmaninoff A stylish daily helper for securing messages, photos, and postcards or simply as a colourful accent...
The German Requiem is not a Mass in the traditional liturgical sense; rather, Brahms sets a very personal and carefully-assembled group of texts from the Lutheran Bible in this seven-movement work for...
