Tag: #romanticperiod
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.
This Week in Music History: The premiere of Brahms’s First Piano...
Full of Christmas cheer, Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann in December 1857:
