A wedding without a famous wedding march - unimaginable! Wagner's 'Bridal Chorus' from 'Lohengrin' and Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' from the incidental music of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' vie for th...
The Trois Gymnopédies are Satie's most famous pieces: Allusions to dances of young men in ancient Sparta in honor of the fallen of the Battle of Thyrea. Wolfgang Birtel has now arranged the Gymnopédie...
For two voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano) and piano.
Charles Gounod's Ave Maria contains a melody of the composer's own making played atop a slightly modified version of Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Prelude No.1 in C Major, BWV 846', from Book I of The Well...
Sonata quasi una fantasia' was Beethoven's title, and yet the music world knows this composition as the 'Moonlight Sonata' - an epithet that was already in the air during the composer's lifetime. 'The...
The music of small forms was what the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) focused on. In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher of Camille Saint-Saëns took the position of...
Gabriel Fauré was one of the most important French composers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century: he won the hearts of the public especially with songs and piano music. In the 187...
The Air by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting Jesus bleibet meine Freude for popularity: The final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life is really catchy b...
