Musicon / Debussy / Ravel / Debussy and Ravel Quartets - A note
Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel only wrote one quartet each. Both of these are extremely impressionistic in style, correlating chronologically with the work of Monet and his contemporaries in France, full of colour, and rich in bold gestures. Thirteen years younger than Debussy, Ravel wrote his ::More
Musicon / Saint Saens / Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Saint-Saens is great fun!
“I actually regard playing a concerto almost like it’s chamber music. That’s why I enjoy it so much,” pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet says. As a concerto soloist, “I don’t feel I’m playing and not listening to the orchestra while they follow me. Music is ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Learn about Classical Music with Creative Kids
Creative Kids Central is an interactive web site with the aim to let kids learn about classical music. It includes information on musical genres and games that will help you build you own opera!, know about symphonic music, take a glance at the world of Brahms and Chamber Music - all very ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Overtures
Concertos for piano or violin are usually written in three movements, of which the first and last follow the symphonic model in respect of elaboration and form, and the second is a brief movement in slow or moderate time, which has the character of an intermezzo. As to the nomenclature of chamber ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Cadenzas
Compositions belonging to the category of chamber music, and concertos for solo instruments with orchestral accompaniment, all have individual characteristics conditioned on the expressive capacity of the apparatus. The modern piano is capable of asserting itself against a full orchestra, and ::More
