Gerard Schwarz Audio

With J.S. Bach and three of his sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Christian, we find a concentration of familial talent that is unique in history....

Gerard Schwarz describes how Bela Bartok developed new rhythmic patterns modeled on Balkan and North African folk music and explored unusual instrumental colors and textures.

The work of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) has been called the culmination of the Classical era or the wellspring of the Romantic era in European music....

Berlioz had a passionate and idealistic personality, one given to incandescent enthusiasms and uncompromising struggles....

In an era when his colleagues were exploring new modes of musical design, Brahms showed that sonata-form, fugue, and theme-with-variations still held great potential....

Gerard Schwarz explains how Chopin came to embody the Romantic Movement with his rich harmonic shadings....

Gerard Schwarz shares his enthusiasm for the music of Aaron Copland, the quintessential American composer....

Debussy was the first great composer of the twentieth century. He departed from previous musical practice to a greater extent than any previous composer.

Gerard Schwarz takes you through the life of Anton Dvorak, a devoted Czech nationalist who, like other composers of the nineteenth century, brought national or ethnic pride into the concert hall by using their nation's folk music to evoke patriotic sentiments.

Beginning in the waning years of the 19th century, Spanish composers turned to the rich tradition of Spanish folk music for materials and inspiration....