1. A child prodigy Joshua Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, on 9 December 1967. He began taking violin lessons at the age of four after his mother discovered that he had stretched rubber bands ...

The Blue Bird Charles Villiers Stanford Download 'The Blue Bird' on iTunes ...

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Slavonic Dance in F major Opus 46 No.4 Antonin Dvorak Download 'Slavonic Dance in F major Opus 46 No.4' on iTunes ...

Symphony No.104 in D major (4) Joseph Haydn Download 'Symphony No.104 in D major (4)' on iTunes ...

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For a work as seemingly Spanish as Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, it initially seems bizarre that many people’s first encounter with it is forever linked to the fictional Yorkshire town of Grimley.

Demonstrating the many facets of the cello - from growling low chords to tripping semiquaver scales in the instrument's sweet high register - Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic ...

Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor Opus 23 (1) Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Download 'Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor Opus 23 (1)' on iTunes ...

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Composed between 1900 and 1901, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is often described as the greatest piano concerto ever written. After the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1 in 1897 ...

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