The Concierto received its first performance at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on April 15, 1982. The performers were the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, who had commissioned the concerto, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jesús López-Cobos....
Together with Summer Night on the River it is one of Delius's Two Pieces for Small Orchestra. The two were first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913. https://youtu.be/_LWduenPBBo?si=wjbe2sfSo5qeuyIL
Together with On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring it is one of Delius’s Two Pieces for Small Orchestra. The two were first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913.
Saint-Saëns dedicated the concerto to fellow composer-virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, who performed the solo part at the premiere in October 1880 in Hamburg. https://youtu.be/Yd5LN2s5VUM?si=7M_zaUBFtSztr8-a
A 1945 musical composition by Benjamin Britten with a subtitle "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell." It is based on the second movement of Purcell's Abdelazer suite (performed by The Broadway Bach Ensemble in February, 2017)....
A brilliant antiphonal brass piece by the Venetian master.
Gabrieli’s music is legendary and beloved among brass players.
The A-minor piano concerto came to fruition during a productive time in Schumann’s life. It is one of his best-known works, and one of the most widely performed and recorded piano concertos of the romantic era.
The birth of musical modernism. Without it, there would be neither Petrushka nor The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky remains deeply rooted in traditions of his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, but he is already breaking new ground. It’s a brilliant evolutionary leap: the last great “Russian” ballet and, at the same time, the first “modern” one.
In one eleven-minute movement, it transforms eight Welsh nursery tunes and lullabies, well-known to Welsh families but practically unknown outside Wales. Fantasia is cleverly constructed, highlighting the many colors of the orchestra while still remaining whimsical and light.