I came from what is sometimes called a "musical family". We weren't exactly the ...

I've always loved Faure's Pavane, hadn't heard it in a long time, maybe even years.  I knew there were two versions, the origi...

Pulcinella is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on an 18th-century play— Pulcinella is a character originating from Commedia dell'a...

Every once in a while a piece of music pops into my head unbidden, from who knows where. We had a record of this piece played by Rostropov...

Everybody remembers this primal scene from Amadeus, when Salieri comes to realize that this snotty little pipsqueak he's been dealing...

No! No! This ISN'T the same piece I posted a few days ago! This is just the waltz from Masquerade , not the whole suite. But it's...

A favorite. When I latch onto one of these, I listen to it over and over again. This is like dark, quirky circus music. The percussion, ...

This is one of those pieces I inadvertently tracked down through wonderful YouTube. I've been immersed in music lately, disc...

It's hard to believe that the music I waxed rhapsodic about yesterday is from a ballet called Spartacus. I've never even wa...

It surprises me how often things are joined together, even chained, or branch ever outwards yet back into each other. Or is it like one o...