A video tribute to Olivier Messiaen, released in honor of the composer's birthday anniversary: Olivier Messiaen: Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano, with Alexi Kenney, violin and Victor Asuncion, piano… Read more »
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Barrière Duo
Jean-Baptiste Barrière (1707 – 1747): Sonata No. 10 in G Major for Two Cellos performed by Brannon Cho and Alexander Hersh, filmed during the NEXUS Chamber Music Chicago 2019 Summer Festival.… Read more »
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Program Notes: Pianist Drew Petersen
Frederic Chopin: Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) composed his Barcarolle Op. 60 in 1845-46 in Nohant, France, about 180 miles south of Paris. The work was written at the country home of the novelist Aurore Dudevant, more commonly known as George Sand, with whom Chopin was romantically involved from 1838. … Read more »
Program Notes: Violist Toby Appel and Pianist Drew Petersen
James Friskin: Elegy James Friskin was born in Glasgow and studied in London at the Royal College of Music...Although he began to compose early, his career as a composer effectively ended in 1914 when he accepted an invitation to emigrate to the United States to be a founding faculty member at the Institute of Musical Arts in New York, which eventually became The Juilliard School...He is credited with having given the first performance in the United States of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 1925.… Read more »