Impressive Performance of Bach’s Actus Tragicus by a 90-Year-Old Couple!
In the video (below), Pianists György Kurtág and his wife Márta play together transcriptions made by Kurtág himself of Bach’s choral prelude Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV 614, his Duet BWV…
More Than Ever, Andrea Bocelli And His Wife, Veronica Berti, Perform A Heartfelt Duet
Andrea Bocelli Sings with His Wife Andrea met his second wife Veronica Berti in 2002 not long after his divorce from his first wife Enrica with whom he has two…
Playing An Upright And Competing With Pa Announcements, The Chinese Musician Wowed An Unsuspecting Crowd
Lang Lang playing his set at St Pancras station: ‘I think this brings music very close to the people.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian The superstar pianist Lang Lang has played in the great…
At The Age Of Four, A 13-Year-Old Prodigy On The Piano Was ‘Perfectly’ Able To Play Chopin And Bach.
Lucy, who is blind and autistic, has wowed audiences and is one of four musicians chosen to compete in tonight’s grand finale of Channel 4 show The Piano Nervously walking…
How Beethoven Drank Himself To D.E.A.T.H?
Scientists have deciphered Beethoven’s genome from locks of his hair Study shows he was predisposed to liver disease and infected with Hepatitis B Combined with his alcohol consumption, this may…
The Stunning Rendition Of “Down To The River To Pray” By The High School Choir Echoes From Hotel Balconies
A high school choir harmonises on a beloved spiritual, in one soul-shaking hotel acoustic… A viral video of high school students singing the folk hymn ‘Down to the River to…
The Wild, Sublime Music That Composers Write On Their Deathbeds
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach, (born March 21 [March 31, New Style], 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies [Germany]—died July 28, 1750, Leipzig), composer of the Baroque era, the…
From Beethoven to Bach, here are 10 ‘masterworks’ I’d like to hear far less
Take Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, which has been vying for top slot in the Hall of Fame with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending since 2003, and this year has…
Georg Friedrich Händel, Unleashing the Majestic Brilliance of the Baroque Master
Georg Friederich Händel in the German registry office, Handel for the French, Giorgio Federico Hendel in Italy or George Frideric Handel in England, was an important Baroque composer and musician with a great cosmopolitan spirit. Fun…
Exploring the Mysteries of Musical History with Four Living Pianos Performed by Renowned Composers
Pianos may be bulky instruments, but their bulkiness belies their true delicacy. From keys to hammers to strings, a single piano consists of hundreds of intricate tiny parts, and honestly,…