Composer's Notes:'Masquerade draws inspiration from the original mid-18th century promenade concerts held in London's pleasure gardens. As is true today, these concerts were a place where people from...
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Vltava/Die Moldau', Smetanas bekannteste und am häufigsten aufgeführte Tondichtung, entstand im Stadium seiner vollständigen Ertaubung zwischen dem 20. November und dem 8. Dezember 1874, doch erst 187...
Something "completely new and unheard-of" would be offered to the audience, Robert Schumann wrote to Franz Liszt at the end of 1851, referring to the premiere of his "dramatic poem" Manfred. Already a...
Nostaglia, by Rossano Galante, literally means a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. This orchestral setting is lyr...
One of the most famous ballet scores of the twentieth century. Completed in 1911, Petrouchka was the second of Stravinsky's great ballets and is equally at home in the concert hall as in the theatre....
