Eighty years ago this month, (12-14 July, 1960), Dmitri Shostakovich went to Dresden, East Germany. He was there to work on a joint project between Soviet and East German filmmakers
Eighty years ago this month, (12-14 July, 1960), Dmitri Shostakovich went to Dresden, East Germany. He was there to work on a joint project between Soviet and East German filmmakers
Gérard Grisey deserves an honorable mention in my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical for his entrancing work, Les espaces acoustiques, a huge undertaking that took him about 11 years to complete.
Coming in at #29 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is Modest Mussorgsky’s amazing tone poem, Night on Bald Mountain. Mussorgsky is one of my favorite composers. I love the
Coming in as an Honorable Mention is a composer I hadn’t known about that much before recently. However, this composer crafted an Octet that is worthy of people’s time, seemingly
Coming in at #30 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s best work, and the most operatic of all musicals, The Phantom of the Opera. Most people
Coming in as an honorable mention is Franz Schubert with his Symphony No. 8, the “Unfinished” Symphony. The numbering system for Schubert’s symphonies can be odd, but I’ll stick with
Sergei Prokofiev is a Russian composer of the 20th Century, and his life story is quite fascinating, tragic, as well as quite successful. For me, he has two pieces here
In November 1994, I went with some friends to Stanford Hospital to visit an acquaintance who had just gotten out of back surgery. We saw her, and on the way
Debussy makes a second entry in the Top 50 with his inestimable Images, Book 1. He composed these not long after completing the Pour le piano suite. They are gorgeous
Claude Debussy comes in on my list of Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical at #34 with his amazing suite literally called For the Piano. It is a suite of three pieces,