A music blog written by Rich Brown
There is a region in Northwest France that is named Brittany. This is the home of the ethnic group of Bretons, who speak the ancient Celtic language of Breton. This language is related to Cornish, and more distantly related to Welsh. The ancestors of the Bretons came to this part of France over 1,000 years... Continue Reading →
Part IV I had difficulty narrowing down my choice for the fourth and final entry in this series on string quartets. There is so much music written for four strings, and the majority of it seems indispensable to me. Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Ravel, Debussy all wrote masterpieces for the genre. Charles Ives, Samuel Barber,... Continue Reading →
Part III Another fundamental cycle of music of the string quartet repertoire is the set of six quartets by Béla Bartók (1881-1945). Like the collection of Beethoven quartets, Bartók’s cycle spans the length of his compositional career. Bartók developed in his music a very personal and individual solution to the chromatic crisis that was early... Continue Reading →
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