Yorick De Bruycker

L'opéra bouffe Così fan tutte est l'un des trois opéras de Mozart dont Da Ponte a écrit le livret. Les deux autres collaborations Da Ponte-Mozart sont "Le nozze di Figaro" et "Don Giovanni". L'ouvertu...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("L'enlèvement au sérail") est un "singspiel" en trois actes de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Le livret allemand est de Gottlieb Stephanie, d'après "Belmont und Constanze, ode...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("L'enlèvement au sérail") est un "singspiel" en trois actes de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Le livret allemand est de Gottlieb Stephanie, d'après "Belmont und Constanze, ode...

The opera buffa ‘Don Giovanni’ is one of the three Mozart operas for which Da Ponte wrote the libretto. The other two Da Ponte-Mozart collaborations were ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ and ‘Così fan tutte’. ‘Do...

In the early 1930s, Béla Bartók resolved to compose some orchestra pieces which would be easy to play and thus could be performed more often than his other demanding, musically and technically difficu...

In the early 1930s, Béla Bartók resolved to compose some orchestra pieces which would be easy to play and thus could be performed more often than his other demanding, musically and technically difficu...

One of the most influential of German romantic composers is Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). He is especially known because of his opera's but he composed some masses and a number of solo concerto's...

One of the most influential of German romantic composers is Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). He is especially known because of his opera's but he composed some masses and a number of solo concerto's...

French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of operas, oratorios and masses but he was also a fine chamber-work and concerto-composer with a delicate touch and no...

French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of operas, oratorios and masses but he was also a fine chamber-work and concerto-composer with a delicate touch and no...

After the Armistice of Versailles was signed on 28 January 1871, the Paris Commune assumed power in Paris on 18 March. Fearing for his safety, Camille Saint-Saëns fled to exile in London. Under these...

After the Armistice of Versailles was signed on 28 January 1871, the Paris Commune assumed power in Paris on 18 March. Fearing for his safety, Camille Saint-Saëns fled to exile in London. Under these...

Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 -1910) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist. After retirement as a teacher at the conservatory, Reinecke devoted his time to composition with a long and v...

Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 -1910) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist. After retirement as a teacher at the conservatory, Reinecke devoted his time to composition with a long and v...

Tschaikowsky's 'Sérénade mélancolique' in B-flat minor for violin and orchestra, was written in February 1875. It was his first work for violin and orchestra, and was written immediately after complet...

Tschaikowsky's 'Sérénade mélancolique' in B-flat minor for violin and orchestra, was written in February 1875. It was his first work for violin and orchestra, and was written immediately after complet...

Pablo de Sarasate was not only a great violin player but a composer as well and because of that it´s quite logic that the violin plays an important role in his work. In 1885 de Sarasate composed his '...

Pablo de Sarasate was not only a great violin player but a composer as well and because of that it´s quite logic that the violin plays an important role in his work. In 1885 de Sarasate composed his '...

Bien que Max Bruch n'ait pas, à proprement parler, laissé de concerto pour violoncelle, les violoncellistes sont extrêmement reconnaissants des quatre pièces concertantes en un seul mouvement qu'il a...

Bien que Max Bruch n'ait pas, à proprement parler, laissé de concerto pour violoncelle, les violoncellistes sont extrêmement reconnaissants des quatre pièces concertantes en un seul mouvement qu'il a...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

Les "Danses hongroises" (Ungarische Tänze), qui évoquent directement le sang chaud de la musique tzigane hongroise, se composent de 21 danses, composées à l'origine pour piano à quatre mains. Peut-êtr...

Les "Danses hongroises" (Ungarische Tänze), qui évoquent directement le sang chaud de la musique tzigane hongroise, se composent de 21 danses, composées à l'origine pour piano à quatre mains. Peut-êtr...

The 'Slavonic Dances' are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvor(ák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus 72 respectively. The fourth dance from the first s...