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Jun 7, 2024 · Johannes Brahms: the Piano Concertos. Hänssler: HC23082. Buy 2 CDs or download online. Michael Korstick (piano), Deutche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Constantin Trinks.
1 day ago · Instrumentation: The main instruments are Booker T. Jones’s Hammond organ, Steve Cropper’s guitar, Lewie Steinberg’s bass (later replaced by Donald “Duck” Dunn), and Al Jackson Jr.’s drums. Key: The song is primarily in the key of F minor. Structure: “Green Onions” follows a 12-bar blues structure, which is common in many blues ...
Jun 6, 2024 · Whether nimble-fingered technical experts, first-rate musical interpreters, or champions of the keyboard far and wide, these 25 pianists from history through to modern-day are the true masters of the 88 keys (listed alphabetically). Read more: The 20 best piano concertos of all time. Leif Ove Andsnes (1970-)
4 days ago · Among my earliest memories are of recordings of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (by Clifford Curzon, I think) and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (Claudio Arrau?) being played in our home. But it is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 (‘Pastoral’) that has primal associations: my mother hummed the main theme from the final movement to me and to ...
1 day ago · The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, Op. 33 was the first of three concerti (for solo instrument and orchestra) that Dvořák composed, but is perhaps the least known of the three. The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 53 was written in 1878 for Joseph Joachim, a prominent violinist whom Dvořák had met and admired ...
May 24, 2024 · At this point Brahms’s productivity increased, and, apart from the two delightful Serenades for orchestra and the colourful first String Sextet in B-flat Major (1858–60), he also completed his turbulent Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor (1854–58).
4 days ago · The concerto’s quick music (Molto allegro and Allegro con anima) admirably portrays the vivacious personality of their composer, described in 1906 as offering those around her ‘an abundance of joy, excitement and fun’.
