My Top 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music (Part 1)

My Top 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music...

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Lili Boulanger: Psalm 130

The story of Lili Boulanger's life is one of the most fascinating and tragic in all of musical history. A remarkably precocious talent, Boulanger learned to read sheet music before the alphabet, played the violin, piano, cello, and harp, and composed regularly from a young age. D ...  Show more

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Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Part 2)

In a letter to Tchaikovsky's nephew Vladimir Davydov, Tchaikovsky wrote: "I'm very pleased with its content, but dissatisfied, or rather not completely satisfied, with the instrumentation. For some reason it's not coming out as I intended. It would be typical and unsurprising if ...  Show more

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