Ayanthi AnandagodaAug 25, 20202 minPathetique Sonata - 2nd MovementBeethoven wrote 35 piano sonatas and spans through his entire life time and as such it is a great resource to study the development of...
Ayanthi AnandagodaApr 23, 20202 minLiszt Consolation D Flat Major No 3You cannot realise what it is means to me to leave the piano. It is like a day of sorrow. It robs me of the light that illuminated the...
Ayanthi AnandagodaApr 10, 20201 minSous Les Étoiles: Suite Française (for piano), Op. 65 Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer Born into a musical family in Victorian times, Amy Marcy...
Ayanthi AnandagodaApr 4, 20203 minClaude Debussy, Clair de Lune (Moonlight): unraveling the masterpieceYour soul is a select landscape Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their...
Ayanthi AnandagodaMar 23, 20202 minChopin: In Search of the Poet Who Transformed Music Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1In stark contrast to compositions forcing keyboard acrobatics, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) favors decorative and elaborative melodic...
Ayanthi AnandagodaFeb 29, 20201 minFlower Duet (lakmé) by Leo Delibes"Sous le dôme épais" is a popular duet for soprano and mezzo soprano from the opera Lakmé, first performed in Paris in 1883. Set in...
Ayanthi AnandagodaFeb 26, 20201 minChopin Prelude in E minor (op 28 no 4): Farewell Music'When the eyes can see neither notes nor keys, only then does the hearing function with all its sensitivity': Frédéric Chopin. The set of...
Ayanthi AnandagodaFeb 13, 20201 minGabriel Fauré: Après un rêve” (after a dream)French composer and music professor Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) known for composing piano with mélodie published this composition 1878. The...
Ayanthi AnandagodaFeb 9, 20201 minAdolph von Henselt: Repos d'amourThe unjustly neglected genius composer Adolf von Henselt (1814-1889) was one of the greatest virtuosi of the nineteenth century. "His...
Ayanthi AnandagodaFeb 4, 20202 minTräumerei (dreaming), Robert Schumann:Let us immerse ourselves in the words of Rob Kapilow who performed Traumerei celebrating Schumann Bicentennial: "The opening musical idea...
Ayanthi AnandagodaNov 25, 20191 minPomp and the Circumstance MarchBefore the World War I, Edward Elgar was commissioned to write a piece celebrating the glory and power of Britain on the international...
Ayanthi AnandagodaApr 18, 20181 minSchubert Impromptu no 3 in G Flat Major"Music, asserts Krystian Zimerman, is not sound. Music is using sound to organise emotions in time". Schubert - Impromptu no 3 G flat Major