The Best Voice in the World: Singer Reaches Outrageously High Notes in an Operatic Showcase
Dimash Kudaibergen is a singer and songwriter from Kazakhstan and is a talented musician, able to play a range of instruments. He is famous for having an unusually wide vocal…
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto In E Minor Is Seemingly A Rite Of Passage For Violinists
Over the generations, it has proven itself to be among the quintessential violin concertos. Mendelssohn, with his Mozartean composing speed and production, took an unusually long time for this work…
André Rieu Introduces Incredible Talent of 3-Year-Old Violin Prodigy Akim Camara
André Rieu is a Dutch violinist from the Netherlands. Rieu is known for conducting the Johann Strauss Orchestra. As a 60-piece orchestra, the Johann Strauss Orchestra is considered to be…
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto For Two Violins, The “Bach Double”
Accompanied by the Orchestre de Chambre de la RTF, American-born violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin and renowned Soviet classical violinist David Oistrakh play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins,…
Martha Argerich’s Musical Journey: 7 Spectacular Live Performances by the Argentine Pianist
Chopin Scherzo Op 39 No 3 in C sharp minor International Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw, 1965 Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Paris, 1970 Liszt Piano Concerto No 1 Berlin, 1981 Prokofiev Piano Concerto…
Maria Anna, Mozart’s Sister, Was Just as Talented as Her Brother; She Performed the Most Difficult Sonatas
Maria Anna Mozart, nicknamed Nannerl, was the elder and only sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She was born on 30 July 1751 in Salzburg, Austria. Like her younger brother, Nannerl was…
When A Professional Musician Sits Down At A Public Piano
When Henri Herbert Sits Down At A Public Piano Henri Herbert is a pianist who specilises in the Boogie Woogie genre of music. His piano playing talents have been captured…
Listening to Debussy Plays Debussy in a 1913 Vintage Recording
A century ago, the great French composer Claude Debussy sat down at a contraption called a Welte-Mignon reproducing piano and recorded a series of performances for posterity. The machine was designed to encode…
Hedda Gabler: Manuscript on fire! Johan Svendsen and Sarah Levett
The play Hedda Gabler, written by the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen premiered in 1891. It details Hedda’s struggles as a newlywed with an existence she finds devoid of excitement…
The Brilliant of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip
The most impressive of Johann Sebastian Bach’s pieces, musicophiles may have told you, will knock you over with their ingeniousness, or at least their sheer complexity. Indeed, the music of…