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• ↓ Chopin’s Prelude No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 28: Maurizio Pollini
• ↓ Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major: The Apotheosis of Dance
• ↓ Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Hipocondrie à 7 Concertanti in A Major: Bremer Barockorchester
• ↓ Sondheim’s “So Many People”: An Early Ballad
• ↓ Piazzolla’s Sinfonietta: Before the Tango
• ↓ Debussy’s Violin Sonata: Karisa Chiu and Zhu Wang
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"“Prelude No. 2 ought not to be played, as it is bizarre,” warned the Polish pianist, Jan Kleczyński. Alfred Cortot offered a similar sentiment when he referred to it as “a painful meditation; the distant, deserted sea…” Hans von Bülow called it the “Presentiment of Death.” Even to our modern ears, Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude in A minor, Op. 28, No. 2 remains ghostly and unsettling. It opens suspended somewhere between E minor …"

"In his 1850 treatise, The Artwork of the Future, Wagner famously described Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 as “the apotheosis of dance itself…dance in its most exulted form.” Indeed, this sunny, jubilant, Bacchanalian music is infused with a visceral and infectious sense of physical motion. Jan Swafford writes that “the Seventh dances unlike any symphony before: it dances wildly and relentlessly, dances almost heroically, dances in obsessive rhythms whether …"

"It was Bedřich Smetana who, in the mid-1860s, rediscovered the long-lost scores of Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745). A contemporary of J.S. Bach and Handel, Zelenka wrote some of the boldest and most inventive music of the late-Baroque period. His radical, forward-looking works contain elements of the galant style that set the stage for the classical music of Haydn and Mozart. For much of his career, Zelenka was employed by the …"

"Saturday Night would have been Stephen Sondheim’s first professional musical. Its intended Broadway opening in 1955 was cancelled following the sudden death of the lead producer, Lemuel Ayers. Months later, Arthur Laurents, impressed with the Saturday Night score, recommended the 25-year-old composer to Leonard Bernstein as the lyricist for West Side Story. Saturday Night was finally produced at London’s Bridewell Theatre in 1997. Its off-Broadway premiere came in 2000. Based on the play Front Porch in …"

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Chopin’s Prelude No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 28: Maurizio Pollini

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major: The Apotheosis of Dance

Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Hipocondrie à 7 Concertanti in A Major: Bremer Barockorchester

Sondheim’s “So Many People”: An Early Ballad

Piazzolla’s Sinfonietta: Before the Tango

Debussy’s Violin Sonata: Karisa Chiu and Zhu Wang