We previously checked out some great adagios on Rhythm Planet on August 28 with music by Albinoni, Brahms, and Mahler. Today let’s check out three other ones by Samuel Barber, Mozart, and Ravel.
Early in the 1780s, Mozart began attending soirees at the home of music patron Baron van Swieten, who owned an extensive collection of Bach and Handel manuscripts. Mozart began copying Bach’s fugues ...