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This Week’s Dame Myra Hess Concert | Music by Prokofiev and Kreisler

Live from the Chicago Cultural Center, hear violinist Kinga Augustyn along with pianist Kalina Mrmevska. Wednesday at 12:15 pm

Your Guide to Chopin’s Orchestral Works

10 Composers Changing Contemporary Classical Music (Who Also Happen to Be Women)

This breakdance duet to Chopin’s “Fantaisie-Impromptu” will send you spinning

When Frédéric Chopin composed his Fantaisie-Impromptu, he probably didn’t expect for the work to serve as the music for a breakdance duet. But at Arabesque 2014, an international ballet competition hosted by the Perm Ballet Opera...

10 Classical works to listen to during the solar eclipse

However you’re observing the solar eclipse, be sure never to stare directly at the sun...and to play the perfect music! Here are some of our favorite classical works inspired by the moon and night....

Hear These Uncovered Piano Masterworks from Haiti

Haitian composer Ludovic Lamothe has been nicknamed the “Black Chopin” because of his virtuosic writing for the piano. Lamothe is scarcely the only composer from Haiti to compose incredible keyboard works. For centuries, Haitian...

Hear Astor Piazzolla’s tango take on Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons have delighted listeners for centuries. The collection of four concertos was part of a larger group of works he published called The Contest Between Harmony and Invention. Each of the concertos in The Four...

The Petrushka Chords

Composers can use chords to create a variety of effects, and Igor Stravinsky is famous for his use of chords to conjure up entire worlds of magic and mystery, including works he composed for the Ballets Russes: The Firebird, The Rite...

After gathering dust for 200 years, how Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 was rediscovered

Franz Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 collected dust for nearly 200 years in the National Museum in Prague before it became a staple of the cello repertoire. Music historians had always known of the concerto’s existence, thanks to...

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