Tag: #romanticperiod
10 Dinner Party Facts about Tchaikovsky
From the Nutcracker to the 6th Symphony, Tchaikovsky gave us some of the world's most beautiful music. But his was far from a charmed life...
Top 5: Choral Music for Easter
There's nothing like egg-cellent choral music to get that egg-static Easter feeling. We've been on an Easter egg hunt and think our Top 5 are unbeatable...
🎧 One Thing to Listen for in Brahms’s Violin Concerto
The beautiful oboe solo that opens the Adagio. How could a musical moment Brahms feared "feeble" manage to arouse jealousy in violinists everywhere?
This Week in Music History: The premiere of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony...
Napoleon may have ceased to be Beethoven’s hero, but the composer and his imposing Eroica Symphony have a heroism of their own.
🎧 One Thing to Listen for in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No....
The piano 🎹 It may seem obvious to listen to the piano in a piano concerto, but if we look closer, there's a bit more to it than that...
Episodes in the life of an artist: The astonishing life and...
150 years after Hector Berlioz's death, we recognise a man who dauntlessly pursued his artistic vision — his life and music a complex web of passion...
Did Berlioz really say all that!?
Take the #Berlioz150 quiz if you dare and see if you can tell Berlioz from Beethoven, Shakespeare and Goethe!
🎧 One Thing to Listen for in Bizet’s Carmen
The habanera. Bizet blends a lilting Cuban rhythm, a "borrowed" Spanish melody, and a heavy dose of chromaticism into one of opera's most recognizable hits.
This Week in Music History: The premiere of Carmen (1875)
The debut of Bizet's incendiary femme fatale who, for all her fatal attraction, couldn't win over her first audience...
This Week in Music History: Schubert is born (1797)
Franz Peter Schubert’s parents, Franz Theodor and Maria Elisabeth, were wise to get to church as soon as possible after his birth on January 31, 1797.
