RACHEL A. SCHLESINGER

Violin Music

Composer: Edward Elgar

Salut d'amour

Performer: Sarah Chang

Chamber Music

Composer: Wolfgang A. Mozart

Title: Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello in B-flat Major K. 502

Performer: Violin: Anne Sophie Mutter. Piano: André Previn. Cello: Daniel Müller-Schott.

Symphonic Music

Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier

Title: España Rhapsody For Orchestra

Performer: Leonard Slatkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra

Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 19th July 2002. 

Vocal Music

Composer: Gabriel Faure

Title: Requiem, 4. Pie Jesu

Performer: N/A

Winds and Percussion

Composer: Percy Grainger

Title: Lincolnshire Posy

Performer: Eastman Wind Ensemble

The definitive recording of Percy Grainger's masterwork for the concert band. This is the Eastman Wind Ensemble performing "Lincolnshire Posy" under the baton of Frederick Fennell.

Piano music

Composer: Frederic Chopin

Title: Nocturne No.8 Op. 27 No. 2 D-Flat Major

Performer: Valentina Lisitsa

Chopin's Nocturne No.8 D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2

The Nocturne in D-flat major is initially marked as lento sostenuto and is in 6/8 meter. It consists of two strophes, repeated in increasingly complex variations. The piece is 77 measures long.

Blair Johnson calls the main cadence, near the end of the piece, "one of the most glorious moments in Chopin's entire output". Johnson also calls the piece "one of [Chopin's] most graceful essays infioritura ornamental practices". Huneker states that the piece "really contains but one subject, and is a song of the sweet summer of two souls, for there is obviously meaning in the duality of voices." He also claims that the piece is "harmonically most interesting". Friskin states that the piece contains "broken rhythms and slurs which require a delicate hand touch".