"What We're Listening To:" Rebecca Clarke - Sonata for Viola and Piano
Rebecca Clarke was an English composer born in August 1886. At the age of nine, she began to play the violin, and later, during her studies at the Royal Academy...
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"What We're Listening To:" George Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 for Orchestra
George Enescu (1881-1955) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher. He is regarded by many as Romania’s most influential musician. He demonstrated musical ability from early on in...
What We're Listening To: Elgar Cello Concerto
Elgar's Cello Concerto: Sir Edward William Elgar (1857-1934) was an English composer who wrote pieces such as Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Enigma Variations, and The Dream of Gerontius. One of...
"What We're Listening To" - Ina Boyle's Violin Concerto
Boyle was born in 1889 in Bushey Park, near Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow Ireland, and spent her entire life in her family home there. Her body of work was quite diverse...
"What We're Listening To" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is undoubtedly one of the most notable Classical composers of all time. In his time, Mozart had composed over 600 works including 21 stage and opera works,...
"What We're Listening To" - Arcangelo Corelli's Christmas Concerto
Arcangelo Corelli was one of the most influential composers of the Baroque period. Born in 1653 in Fusignano, Italy. Corelli was named after his father who died just five weeks...
"What We're Listening To" - Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No. 2
Alexander Borodin was a Russian composer during the Romantic era. He was a multifaceted individual: doctor, chemist, women’s rights advocate, and composer. He studied chemistry at the Medical-Surgical Academy in...
"What We're Listening To" - Zoltán Kodály's Duo for Violin and Cello
Zoltán Kodály (1882 -1967) was a famous Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and pedagogue who was known internationally for having created the Kodály Method of teaching music. ...
"What We're Listening To" - Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor
Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish violinist and composer. He began playing the violin when he was young and was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at age nine, despite not being...
"What We're Listening To" - Ernest Bloch - Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra
On July 24th, we will celebrate the 136th birthday of Swiss composer Ernest Bloch! Bloch was a violinist from the age of nine, studying in Brussels with teachers such as Eugène...
Mikail Glinka - Sonata for Viola and Piano
Mikhail Glinka is considered the fountainhead of Russian classical music, and the first Russian composer to gain widespread recognition in his own country. As a child, he was raised by...
"What We're Listening To" - Tchaikovsky's Serenade For Strings
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) is a well-known late-Romantic period composer from Russia. He was a precocious musician from the age of five. However, the only musical careers available at that time...
"What We're Listening To" - Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor during the late Romantic period. He is still regarded today as one of the major composers of the twentieth century....
"What We're Listening To" - Max Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy"
Max Bruch was born in Germany in 1838. From an early age he studied music, and wrote his first composition at the age of nine: a song for his mother’s birthday....
"What We're Listening To" - Beethoven Romance No. 1 in G Major
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is revered as one of the most famous and influential composers of all time and was a key figure in the transition between the Classical and...
"What We're Listening To:" Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King."
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was a Norweigan composer and pianist who is considered one of the leading composers of the Romantic era. He is also known for having made the music...