Pēteris Vasks's Violin Concerto

Background. Rapidness of information flows of contemporary life enforces to concentrate a significant amount of information in small formats. This fact meaningfully increases socia...

The relevance of the study lies in highlighting the main principles of updating the ancient genre tradition with modern means in «Madrigāls» for mixed choir a сappella by the Latvi...

Настоящая статья посвящена образу зла в инструментальной музыке Петериса Васкса. Несмотря на то, что композитор не считает сферу негативного своей, он ищет способы ее отображения в...

Duels of the Sound: Pietro Antonio Locatelli Versus Jean-Marie Leclair The tradition of musical duels harkens back to the days of the ancient Greece. One of the earliest examples o...

The tradition of musical duels harkens back to the days of ancient Greece. One of the earliest examples of musical rivalry is the myth of Marsyas and Apollo, which ends tragically ...

Abstract The third movement of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso no. 1, Recitativo, lays bare the soloists, foregrounding and undercutting them simultaneously. More...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709), a violinist and composer famous all over Europe during his lifetime, has not received much attention in today's concert programs and academic environm...

It is not surprising that Hungary's greatest composer should write a violin concerto whose qualities are unique. A good concerto has, among other obligations, that of displaying th...