Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - recently serialised on BBC - offered a fascinating, if fictional, insight into how Napoleon's all-conquering march across Europe was finally halted in Moscow by a ...

Emmanuel Krivine conducts the Luxembourg Philharmonic in the overture to Friedrich Kuhlau's music for "The Elves' Hill." Our concert comes from Copenhagen.

Two triumphant piano concertos, straddling the Classical and Romantic periods. Grandeur, excitement, and beauty from Beethoven and his contemporary, Kuhlau. Album of the Week, 1 October 2012. If you ...

After Felix Mendelssohn returned from his 1830 trip to Italy and began writing his Italian Symphony, another German composer's career was in its final days. Friedrich Kuhlau wrote this sonata, op. 83, ...

Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 Per Salo, Piano Christina Åstrand, Violin (Daniel) Friedrich (Rudolph) Kuhlau, Composer (3) Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Daniel) Friedrich (Rudolph) Kuhlau, Composer ...

Piano Quartet No. 1 Copenhagen Piano Quartet (Daniel) Friedrich (Rudolph) Kuhlau, Composer Piano Quartet No. 2 (Daniel) Friedrich (Rudolph) Kuhlau, Composer Copenhagen Piano Quartet Kuhlau’s reverence ...

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