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A little ahead … or a little behind
Samuel Sebastian Wesley received great reviews for his conding at Gloucester’s annual Three Choir Festivals in 1865. An critic in …
A hunch
Logically, a hunch makes as much sense as saying, horses have tails; therefore, all tails have horses.” But in the …
Discovery
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.” Albert Szent-Györgyi , American bio-chemist.
Many an Orpheus and Arions make up a Bach
Johann Matthias Gesner was a colleague of Johann Sebastian Bach at St. Thomas’ School, Leipzig. He later worked on a commentary …
The ghost of Paganini
The Belgian violinist Eugène Yasÿe frightened Busoni by playing the Bach Chaconne and Paganini Caprices on a kit violin in …
Stanford on Tchaikovsky
“Tchaikovsky reminded me, in more ways than one, of his countryman Tourgéniew, whom I once met at Madame Viardot’s. He …
Luther on music
“I am not satisfied with any man who despises music. For music is a gift of God. It will drive …
Music stirred him
“Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not …
Elgar on his Violin Concerto
“It’s good! Awfully emotional! Too emotional, but I love it…” Edward Elgar on his own Violin Concerto Jeremy Pound, “First …
Mozart: the myth versus the man
We often focus too much on the myth of Mozart, the myth of the prodigy and the myth of the …
Steps
“There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” — Peter A. Cohen Ford …
Abstraction IX
Title: Abstraction IX Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Brass quintet (2 trumpets in B-flat, Horn in F, trombone, bass trombone) Product …
Ravel’s fine attributes as a composer
On his tour to America in 1928, Ravel was highly praised by music critics. In the New York Times, Olin …
Chopin’s pianistic style
While in London, Chopin frequently gave performances at soirées and matinées where he performed Nocturnes, Waltzes, Mazurkas and the Berceuse …
Horowitz’s practice regime
The piano technician, Franz Mohr, observed: Horowitz was consistent in all that he did. His rehearsal was always on Saturday …

Air I

Air II

Air III

Air IV

Barcarolle

Beauty Around Us

Blue Flemingo

Bright Sunny Day

Feeling Fine

Lullaby for Ben

Lullaby for Berkeley

Lullaby for Edward

Merlin the Wizard

Miniature I

Minuet I

Musing by Moonlight

Piper’s Tale

Reverie II

Skye Boat Song

Smooth Sailing

Tales from the Carreck of Fergus McGee

Tally Ho!

The King’s Entrance

The Ruffled Knights

Through a Looking Glass

By Greg