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Musical Gem of the Week #13
28 Aug 2010 | 1 Comment »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): 20th century composers, classical music, common practice era, concerto, imperial russia, music, musical composition, piano, piano concerto, piano virtuosos, post-romantic music, post-romanticism, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, rachmaninoff, rachmaninov, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, russia, russian, russian composers, russian empire, russian music, russian nationalism, Sergei Rachmaninov, slavic, tchaikovsky, tsardom
Musical Gem of the Week #12
02 Jun 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): classical music, common practice era, imperial russia, marche slave, marches, music, musical composition, nationalism, orchestral compositions, ottoman empire, ottomans, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, russia, russian, russian composers, russian empire, russian music, russian nationalism, russo-turkish war, serbia, slavic, slavonic march, tchaikovsky, the five, the mighty handful, the nutcracker, turks
Musical Gem of the Week #11
23 May 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): bach, christian converts, classical era, classical music, classical period, common practice era, concert overture, felix mendelssohn, fingal's cave, german composers, hebrides, hebrides overture, inner hebrides, j. s. bach, jewish composers, johann sebastian bach, mendelssohn, music, musical composition, nature, overture, recordings, richard wagner, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, scotland, staffa, wagner
Musical Gem of the Week #10
12 May 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): arias, baritone arias, classical era, classical music, classical period, common practice era, gioachino rossini, Guillaume Tell, Il barbiere di Siviglia, italian composers, italian music, italian opera, largo al factotum, music, musical composition, nicolae herlea, opera, opera buffa, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, rossini, sonata, the barber of seville, william tell
Musical Gem of the Week #9
27 Apr 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): baroque period, beethoven, bridgetower, classical music, classical period, common practice era, george bridgetower, kreutzer, leo tolstoy, love, ludwig van beethoven, music, musical composition, passion, recordings, sonata, the kreutzer sonata, violin, violin sonata
Musical Gem of the Week #8
24 Apr 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): agnus dei, amadeus, amadeus soundtrack, antonio salieri, austrian composers, austrian music, chopin, classical music, classical period, common practice era, dies irae, franz von walsegg, franz xaver süssmayr, frederic chopin, haydn, joseph haydn, lacrimosa, lux aeternai, mass, milos forman, mozart, music, musical composition, recordings, religious music, requiem, requiem mass, salieri, süssmayr, vienna, wolfgang amadeus mozart
Musical Gem of the Week #7
16 Apr 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): austrian composers, austrian music, cadenza, classical music, classical period, common practice era, concerto, franz joseph haydn, haydn, joseph haydn, keyed trumpet, mozart, music, musical composition, recordings, trumpet, trumpet concerto, trumpet music, wolfgang amadeus mozart
Musical Gem of the Week #6
31 Mar 2010 | No Comments »
Musical Gem of the Week #5
26 Mar 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): austrian composers, austrian music, beethoven, c major, cello, cello concerto, classical music, classical period, common practice era, concerto, esterhazy, haydn, joseph haydn, mozart, music, musical composition, recordings
Musical Gem of the Week #4
07 Mar 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): 1685, bach, baroque music, baroque period, beethoven, classical music, classical period, common practice era, common practice period, domenico scarlatti, fortepiano, handel, harpsichord, italian music, mozart, music, musical composition, naples, piano, piano society, piano sonatas, recordings, scarlatti, sonatas