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It’s a testament to the power of Bach’s music that this piece has been heard at weddings, in television advertisements, and in films and remains as beloved as ever in the concert hall.

Crespo drew on musical styles from baroque music to jazz and folk music as well as South American popular music and African American spirituals.

With its brooding fanfare of an opening and escalating dance-like energy, Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is brilliantly suited to brass ensemble.

Bernstein fuses elements of jazz, Latin American music, 12-tone composition, popular music and European symphonic music.

Breadth and flowing lyricism immediately strike the attention in the memorable first subject. In fact, as with other memorable themes of his, it took Beethoven some effort to fashion its final form, which combines spontaneity and inevitability.

‘I was walking along one morning,’ Brahms said. ‘And as I came to this spot the sun shone out and with it this theme.’

Witold Lutosławski was one of the most significant voices in Polish music in the twentieth century.

“The debt to Beethoven is evident in the dramatic opening of the first movement, alongside a lightness of foot that is all Schubert.”

“Boulanger was making the most of student life when she wrote this piece…that exuberance infuses every note.”