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She also stressed today in studio class that baroque music can help with musical control of tempo. Did I catch what she was saying correctly?

I felt for a while that my musicality and phrasing was very intervalic, which was probably because of the music that I choose to listen to and influence me. My teacher advocated listening to more Mozart, which has helped me become much more linear in my phrasing. Has Mozart's music help any of you w...

Just curious, which piece are you transcribing?

The Threnody is an amazing piece. I must admit that listening to a recording of a (violin?) concerto, I think with Isaac Stern, is the only instance I can remember that a piece of music made me physically sick. I remember listening to Charles Ives's General William Booth Enter into Heaven and the d...

Some of Schumann's weakest writing is in his sonata movements. Often Schumann's highly original ideas simply do not work with the continuously repetitive nature of sonata form. His piano sonatas and, even more so, symphonies often sound perfunctory because of this - obviously, he could not give up ...

Try taking a look at Ravel's Introduction and Allegro. Here is the link to the IMSLP page for this piece.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Introduction_et_A ... Maurice%29

I personally have not worked up the Five Bagatelles, but I have friends who I have heard perform it. Here is what I can say on it though. The Prelude is pretty straight forward, you could slightly slow the pulse in the middle, lyrical section (I believe it is in D-flat major, I don't have the music ...

Since Gerald Finzi died in 1956, his music is still under copyright in Canada, the EU, and the United States. If you are looking for the music of this particular piece, I would order it online here http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Five-Bagatelles-Op-23-Clarinet-and-Piano/4145587 . Also, if you wo...

IMSLP has everything you mentioned besides the Finzi, due to it being under copyright law. They can be found right here.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Scores_f ... e_clarinet

To defend Toscanini a bit, he did cut a rather lengthy and stagnant section to move to a more energetic part that mantains the drive and emotional impact of the music (aesthetically speaking). It is an awkward cut, and other conductors such as Stokowski have had a habit out of removing some sections...

I would like to compile a list of notable historical recordings (pre-1955). Here are some that I would like to add. Wilhelm Furtwangler's 1952 recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 with the Vienna Philharmonic. It's remarkable how he makes the music "come alive" in the opening Adagio whi...

The unexpected climax in the first movement of An Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss is amazing, especially since it relatively comes from nowhere. I love the addition of the snare drum Strauss adds to the orchestration, creating a fusillade of sound which carries us from the nighttime atmosphere to...

Barber's A Hand of Bridge is another brief, ten minute opera in English.

I would say Ives's Fourth of July from A New England Holiday Symphony is extremely unusual for the simultenous use of numerous American folk tunes at the climax of the movement.

Handel is Italian opera, and he's german. He was born and raised German, but he did spend a specific amount of his career in England. He also did die a British citizen and was buried in Westminster Abbey Cathedral in London. Next up would I guess be Elgar's Gerontius, but that dates from 1900 Elgar...