"Variations in B flat minor Op. 3" date from 1901-03, the time when Szymanowski studied under Zygmunt Noskowski in Warsaw. Szymanowski dedicated them to to his friend and great pianist, Arthur ...

Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on May 25, 1854: Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to ...

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Tchaikovsky composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 during an intensive period of composition at the end of 1874, with the orchestrations then written in the February of the following year. However, after ...

Both of Brahms’s piano concertos are gargantuan works. At nearly fifty minutes in duration, this one lasts longer than any other major Romantic piano concerto by quite some stretch. And talking of ...

It's among the most popular works in the entire classical repertoire, a favourite of concert pianists headlining with symphony orchestras the world over. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B-flat Minor, ...

Emmanuel Despax’s latest album on Signum Classics features man-sized portions of middle-period Liszt: on disc 1, ‘Après une lecture du Dante’ (more widely known as the Dante Sonata, from the second ...

No composer embodies the Romantic image of the “pale and interesting” aesthete better than Frederic Chopin. Which is why quite a few classical music lovers are wary of him. They feel someone who was ...