Come suggeriscono i numeri d'opera, i cinque trii per archi sono opere relativamente precoci. Beethoven mandò in stampa l'op. 3 all'inizio del 1796 e nello stesso anno iniziò a comporre la Serenata op...
Alle prime esecuzioni della Sonata, scritta tra il 1920 e il 1922, anche gli amici più stretti del compositore rimasero turbati: dopo l'ebbrezza sonora de La Valse, la strumentazione ridotta e il ling...
The huapango is a popular dance originating on the east coast of Mexico. Its subtle alternation of 2 & 3 can be demonstrated in this recitation: MEX-ico, EC-uador, CHI-le, COS-ta, RI-ca. These dances...
The music by Zigmund Schul, who was born in Chemnitz in 1916 and died in the ghetto of Terezin in 1944, has been rather neglected until now.In collaboration with the Terezín Music Memorial Project in...
Hymn for violin and cello was commissioned by violinist Edna Mishell for her international musical project 'Compassion Through Music' which was dedicated to the memory of Yehudi Menuhin. The main idea...
When Ligeti taught composition at the University of Stockholm in the 1960s, he met his famous Swedish fellow composer Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985). Ligeti wrote this musical greeting on the occasion...