The Schubertiades
Franz Schubert's songs and small piano pieces, with their lyrical melodies and poignant harmonies, mark him as the first truly sensuously romantic musician. Schubert's work coincided with the mature...
View ArticleFrédéric Chopin: The Poet of the Piano
By the 1830s, the piano could sigh or shiver, quiver and swoon as no other instrument had ever done. No one had understood the piano's special resources and enchantments more completely than Frederic...
View ArticleMozart vs. Clementi: A Pianistic Duel - Part 1
For the next two installments of Reflections from the Keyboard, David Dubal surveys piano music by Muzio Clementi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, history’s greatest dueling concert pianists. In part one,...
View ArticleMozart and Clementi: A Pianistic Duel, Part 2
David Dubal continues the tale of Mozart and Clementi's famous duel and plays music from the legendary piano competition.When we last left our two heroes, they had just encountered each other at the...
View ArticleMozart and Clementi: A Pianistic Duel - Parts 1 & 2
Tonight on Reflections from the Keyboard, David Dubal looks at the battle between Muzio Clementi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, history’s greatest dueling concert pianists. In part one, the stage is set...
View ArticleA Mozart Piano Mix
On this edition of Reflections, David Dubal highlights a combination of Mozart’s solo piano music and concertos. Listen for the Sonata for two pianos, the Allegretto from his radiant Piano Concerto No....
View ArticleThe Extraordinary Power of Pianist Emil Gilels
As part of the classical music equivalent of the “British Invasion,” pianist Emil Gilels was the first of an illustrious group of Soviet musicians to perform in the United States after World War II,...
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