Piano - Escuela Música de las Esferas
at carnegie hall:
Lang Lang (seated, centre) performs
with Renée Fleming, Oh Land and
John Legend, plus students from
his Music Foundation

The Mozart effect - Lang Lang effect

“From BBC Magazine” It may have been the big Romantic repertoire that made Lang Lang his fame and fortune, but in his early days it was Mozart that kept him grounded. Now, he tells Jessica Duchen, the time has come […]

Su perfecta técnica, su refinamiento estilístico y su elaboración armónica han sido comparadas históricamente, por su perdurable influencia en la música de tiempos posteriores, con las de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart y Ludwig van Beethoven.

Romanticismo. La generación de 1810. Parte 2.

  El año 1810 unifica generacionalmente a una serie de autores nacidos en torno a él: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Félix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) y Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Este «trébol de cuatro hojas» simboliza el núcleo central del Romanticismo […]

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Expressive Piano

The dawn of Romanticism, coupled with improvements in piano manufacture, offered new opportunities for emotional expression and technical brilliance. The compositions of Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Schumann helped propel the piano into the spotlight. As Romanticism took hold in Europe, interest […]

15 travelling composers

Musicians have always travelled. It goes with the territory. But familiar as we might be with the wandering minstrel, strolling player, peripatetic music teacher, busker or touring band, composers are different as they have to sit still in order to […]