Ayanthi Anandagoda
Pathetique Sonata - 2nd Movement
Beethoven wrote 35 piano sonatas and spans through his entire life time and as such it is a great resource to study the development of...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Apr 23, 2020
- 2 min
Liszt Consolation D Flat Major No 3
You 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...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Apr 10, 2020
- 1 min
Sous 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...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Apr 4, 2020
- 3 min
Claude Debussy, Clair de Lune (Moonlight): unraveling the masterpiece
Your soul is a select landscape Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
Chopin: In Search of the Poet Who Transformed Music Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1
In stark contrast to compositions forcing keyboard acrobatics, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) favors decorative and elaborative melodic...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Feb 29, 2020
- 1 min
Flower 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...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Feb 27, 2020
- 1 min
Chopin 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...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Feb 13, 2020
- 1 min
Gabriel 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...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Feb 9, 2020
- 1 min
Adolph von Henselt: Repos d'amour
The unjustly neglected genius composer Adolf von Henselt (1814-1889) was one of the greatest virtuosi of the nineteenth century. "His...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Feb 4, 2020
- 2 min
Träumerei (dreaming), Robert Schumann:
Let us immerse ourselves in the words of Rob Kapilow who performed Traumerei celebrating Schumann Bicentennial: "The opening musical idea...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Nov 25, 2019
- 1 min
Pomp and the Circumstance March
Before the World War I, Edward Elgar was commissioned to write a piece celebrating the glory and power of Britain on the international...
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Ayanthi Anandagoda
- Apr 18, 2018
- 1 min
Schubert 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
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