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"Music is a language," says pianist and music professor Jura Margulis. "If you understand what the composer is saying through the orchestra you may be…
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Pianist Joe Chindamo adds a violin line to Bach's "Goldberg Variations" offering what the liner notes describe as "a meta-version of Bach's Baroque…
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The Arkansas Philharmonic explores American innovation with five diverse composers in this weekend's concert including George Gershwin's piano concerto in…
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Though Arnold Schoenberg praised Max Reger as a genius, while at the same time admitting he didn't fully understand it, Max Reger is not all too…
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The Italian translation for Scherzo is joke, hence the whimsy and irony often found in the classical music form for so many. Chopin's four Scherzi were…
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Longtime musical best friends Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim united in Argentina for an emotionally charged concert at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires,…
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Hear a "rhythmic, muscular and propulsive" flute and piano duo performed by the musicians it was composed for when I play Laura Kaminsky's "Duo for Flue…
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There's a melancholic whimsy in French composer Erik Satie's works for solo piano, including pieces he composed for four hands on one piano, which weren't…
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Join me Wednesday for the irresistible combination of Vladimir Horowitz and Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata, which Horowitz says has "Heroic sprit and…
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Prokofiev's deftly lyrical Cinderella orchestral suite is transformed for two pianos by Mikhail Pletnev. Hear his rendering with Martha Argerich on…