Flight of the Bumble Bee from the opera 'The Legend of Tsar Saltan' based on a text by Pushkin is, without doubt, the best-known work in the oeuvre of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1906). The musical...
Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...
Une 'Last Night of the Proms' sans cette marche - impensable ! 'Pomp and Circumstance Military March no 1' de Edward Elgar (1857-1934) appartient, avec sa section médiane hymnique Land of Hope and Glo...
Les petites formes musicales devaient devenir la marque du compositeur français Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). En 1874, après des années passées 'en province', le professeur de Camille Saint-Saëns prit un...
The music scene took notice of Erik Satie (1866-1925) all of a sudden: The world premiere of his ballet 'Parade' on 18 May 1917 [siehe dt. Text!] caused quite a scandal. The production which involved...
'Novelty of form, selected modulations, strange tone colours, the use of completely unexpected rhythms', this is how Camille Saint-Saëns praised the debut work of a young colleague and continued: 'Abo...