"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 ...

Vladimir Horowitz with Arturo Toscanini and NBC Symphony Orchestra. side 1: First Movement: Allegro Non Troppo e Molto Maestro [part 2]; side 2: Third Movement: Allegro Con Fuoco [part 1] (Victor ...

Sharp notes and flat notes are the black notes on a standard piano keyboard, and they are at the same time exactly the same, and completely the opposite, of each other. They are the same, in that ...

NORTH ADAMS — Outside of a modern art warehouse, a b-flat minor scale wafts above inverted maple trees. The sound of a trombone and an oboe tuning, the persistent click of a metronome and the tap of a ...

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 ...