Shostakovich is admitted to the Petrograd Conservatory. He studies piano with Leonid Nikolayev and ... String Quartets no. 7 & 8 are composed. No. 8 is dedicated 'to the memory of the victims ...

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1 and No.2 81 min Watch the programme More Mikhaïl Pletnev with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Rachmaninov's concertos: No.1 and No.2 81 min Watch the programmeMore Watch Mikhaïl Pletnev ...

Shostakovich's piano music has not enjoyed anything like the same success on record as Prokofiev's—maybe it is simply not anything like as good. Certainly no one is better qualified to change that ...

Shostakovich: Piano Trio op. 8; Piano Trio op. 67; 7 Romances for Soprano and Trio. Zürcher Klaviertrio. Gun-Brit Barkmin, Soprano. Read more: Global rankings: where Switzerland gets good marks ...

Sergei Rachmaninov was born in 1873 into an affluent Russian family. Unfortunately, his father lost all their wealth in business, which resulted in his parents' separation and Sergei moving to ...

Nevertheless, while Prokofiev and Stravinsky had grown up under the Tsars, Shostakovich was the first and arguably the greatest composer to emerge from Communism. His first music lessons (on the piano ...

88 keys, 88 shades of musical bliss: described as the ‘king of instruments’ by Franz Liszt, the piano enchants with its sonic prowess and possibilities. It occupies a special place in the classical ...

Older pianos often have fewer keys. How to play When you press one of the piano's keys, it causes a felt hammer to hit the tuned strings inside the instrument. The strings vibrate to create a sound.

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1: The Cleveland Orchestra in Miami – Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8: Featuring Stéphane Denève, conductor, and Maria Dueñas, violin. Program: Bizet - Suite from L’Arlésienne, Lalo - Symphonie espagnole and ...