Pomp and Circumstance
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Schubertiade Schwarzenberg (June)
Dedicated to the famous Viennese composer, Franz Schubert, the first Schubertiade was founded in 1976 by Hermann Prey in a small peaceful town in the western part of Austria called Hohenems...

Date: June 21 to 29, 2014
Country: Austria
Quatuor Hermès Pomp and Circumstance
This month, our Artists of the Month are the Quatour Hermès, a young string quartet moving from strength to strength. I caught up quickly with Elise Liu, their second fiddle, ahead of their upcoming tour to China...
It’s graduation season and we start to hear music for ceremonies. At my high school graduation, the concert band played a bit of Wagner: ‘Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral’ from Lohengrin...
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Schubertiade
In Praise of Franz Peter Schubert
Lyrical Sax
Alexander Glazunov:
Concerto for Alto Saxophone
In the musical world, Moritz von Schwindt is primarily remembered for his famous drawing entitled “Schubertiade.” The term actually described private and informal musical gathering in the composer’s apartment...
The saxophone was a relative latecomer to the family of woodwind instruments. It features a single reed mouthpiece like the clarinet, a conical brass body and the acoustic properties of both the French horn and the clarinet...
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Selected videos My music Forgotten records

Sylvia Schwartz sings Schubert’s ‘Du bist die Ruh’

Berg: Lyric Suite / Schoenberg:
Transfigured Night

Stamitz: Sinfonia Concertante in D major

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