Gabriel Fauré’s Second Piano Quartet was NOT the product of a commission. It seems that he was just interested in exploring the possibilities of the piano quartet format, and perhaps to seize the ...
About the time in the late 1700s that the piano was undergoing major evolutions, Mozart's publisher contracted him to compose three Piano Quartets. After writing the first, the publisher released ...
Their soothing tones and hypnotic arpeggios amass gigantic listening figures on ‘chill’ Spotify playlists, but composers such as Nils Frahm are shunned by the classical world Pitch darkness. Then a ...