Melodies can be created by using different features which can affect such things as to how it moves and how it is articulated. Piano Concerto No.1 includes: ...
He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin ... suffering from hearing loss, Beethoven continued to compose strong, heroic and groundbreaking music.
The Brendels, father and son, give us Beethoven’s complete works for piano and cello, and you will have to search long and hard – and possibly in vain – to hear performances of a comparable warmth and ...
Gerard Willems was the first Australian to record the complete piano music of Beethoven. Hear the complete fifth Piano Concerto, the 'Emperor', recorded here with Sinfonia Australis and Antony Walker.
Beethoven pioneered Romanticism and expanded previously strict formulas for symphonies ... Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own brilliance.
Batiste believes that classical music is "ripe for transformation" — Beethoven included ... that brings people together around the piano. It's that thing that if you're at a party and you ...
In part two of our interview, Batiste joins us from the piano and plays some of his favorite Christmas songs. He's the former band leader and music director for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.