Gamazda Extremely Talented Pianist Creates Renditions Hitting 47.5M Views
Gamazda is a Russian pianist with some incredible talent. Offstage her name is Alexandra Kuznetsova, she was born in Moscow into a musical family. She began her musical journey by…
Classically Curious: Bach, Handel and ‘The Chevalier John Taylor’
How did a sideshow performer change the fate of two of history’s greatest composers? Martin Buzacott examines an unfortunate medical connection between Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach. The travelling medicine…
Khatia Buniatishvili “Beyond the Eccentricity of Planet Pogorelich”
Khatia Buniatishvili One of the most visually glittering pianists today, Khatia Buniatishvili steadily appears on television sets, front covers of glossy magazines and every imaginable social media outlet. She…
Chamber Music by Women Composers – Röntgen-Maier, La Guerre, Price, Frank, and Pejačević
Amanda Röntgen-Maier The violinist and composer Amanda Röntgen-Maier (1853–1894) created a sensation when she became Sweden’s first-ever female Director of the Music at the Conservatory in Stockholm in 1872. Maier decided to…
The Top 10 Most Influential Baroque Musicians
© aesdes.org If I could take only one style of music to a deserted island it would have to be Baroque music. Music written during that period is full of drama and…
It’s Hard To Go Through Christmas Without Tripping Over Handel’s Masterpiece
Christmas can seem ubiquitous in 21st-century life — but our celebrations pale in comparison to the technicolour festivities of 17th- and 18th-century Europe. Christmas was the highpoint of the year:…
Listen to the Best of Baroque Music This Christmas!
It’s going to be a very different Christmas this year. That stupid Corona virus is everywhere, and so many things we associate with the Christmas season won’t happen. There won’t…
Is The Well-Known Albinoni Adagio Not Written by Albinoni?
“The Professional Dilettante” Tomaso Albinoni There is hardly a collection of recorded Baroque favorites that does not include the “Adagio in G minor” by Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751). Although that world-famous…
Apart From Being An Instrument That Has The Capacity To Blow The Top Of Your Head Off Through Its Incredible Volume, The Organ Can Be A Contemplative Instrument
For an instrument that is said to rule over all the other family members in the vast empire of musical instruments, the organ does not get much prominence or recognition. …
Have You Ever Heard Bach Played On 15 Highly Distorted Electric Guitars?
Laurie Anderson © Noah Greenburg Does your music collection have a cross-section of classical and electronic music? If not, it should. Because classical and electronic music share many sonic similarities.…