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Frederic Chopin

  • #ClassicsaDay #November11 Week 2

    Nov 12th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #November11, Alexander Scriabin, Anatoly Lyadov, Arnold Schoenberg, Frederic Chopin, Twitter, Vítězslava Kaprálová

    November is the eleventh month. And so the Classics a Day team opted to make eleven the month’s then. The challenge is to post works that are numbered 11 in some fashion, either an opus number, a series number, or even a suite number. It turns out that there’s a lot of great music associated […]

  • Piano Protagonists – a triumph for Orion Weiss

    Jul 7th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bridge Records, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frederic Chopin, Leon Botstein, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Orion Weiss, The Orchestra Now

    Pianist Orion Weiss assembled this program around a theme – the composer responding to a specific source of inspiration with a virtuoso composition. It’s an interesting idea, and it yielded an album that virtually spans the Romantic Period. The earliest work is Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” by Frederic Chopin. And the inspiration […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #SchumannsCircle Week 2

    Jun 11th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #SchumannsCircle, Ferdinand Hiller, Frederic Chopin, Joseph Joachim, Norbert Burgmüller

    The Classics a Day team honors Robert Schumann’s birthday (June 8, 1810). The theme for June is Schumann and his circle. During the month, you’re encouraged to share works written by Schumann, his friends, his colleagues, his rivals — and of course, his wife. Here are my #ClassicsaDay selections for the second week of #SchumannsCircle. […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine Week 2

    Oct 16th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalTimeMachine, #ClassicsaDay, Anton Bruckner, Edward Elgar, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Twitter

    For the month of October, the Classics a Day team turned nostalgic. Classical musicians have been making recordings since the 1890s. So we all have over 130 years of documented performance practices. And we can judge first-hand the artistry of legendary performers. The challenge is to post classical recordings made before 1949 (pre-LP era). Here […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalShorts Week 1

    Feb 8th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Classical music, Claudio Monteverdi, Francisco Tarrega, Frederic Chopin, Fritz Kreisler, John Adams, Twitter

    February is the shortest month of the year. That fact inspired #ClassicsaDay team (of which I’m a member) to make short classical pieces the theme for the month. The challenge is to select stand-alone works, not movements of larger pieces. Participants post links to short classical pieces in the social media channel of their choice, […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #SchumannsCircle Week 3

    Jun 22nd, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #SchumannsCircle, Classical music, Frederic Chopin, Heinrich Dorn, Nicolo Paganini, Robert Schumann, Romantic period, Twitter

    Robert Schumann was born on June 8, 1810. Some of us contributing to the #ClassicsaDay feed decided to celebrate that birthday. For the month of June, we encouraged folks to post works by Schumann and his circle. Schumann worked with several major composers of the day. He also reviewed up-and-coming composers in his magazine.  Here […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Opus1 Annotated List Week 2

    Jan 12th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #Opus1, Antonio Vivaldi, Franz Schubert, Frederic Chopin, Lowell Liebermann, Sergei Prokofiev, Twitter

    I’m a regular contributor to the #ClassicsaDay Twitter feed. For January 2018, I decided to mark the first month of the new year with firsts. Each post features the first published work of a different composer. Emphasis on the word “published,” In some cases, the Opus 1 is the first mature work of the composer. […]

  • Horacio Gutiérrez – Chopin and Schumann

    Mar 22nd, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bridge Records, CD Review, Classical music, Frederic Chopin, Horacio Gutiérrez, Robert Schumann

    Sometimes liner notes can make a difference. In the booklet for this release, Stephen Wigler suggested that Chopin’s Op. 28 Preludes might be considered a single cycle comprised of very short works, as opposed to a collection of 24 self-contained preludes. While they certainly work as the former, the idea that each prelude was part […]

  • Visualizing Chopin with Musanim

    Sep 28th, 2015 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Classical music, Classical piano, Frederic Chopin, Maurizio Pollini, Musanim, video

    If you don’t “get” classical music, read on. Musanim.com can help. One of the challenges classical music presents to many people is that it’s not always immediately clear what’s going on. Composers write on many different levels, and often it’s not just the melody that’s important (which may or may not be on the top), […]

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