Monthly Archive:: December 2010

Copland Violin Sonata Recently I have been listening to the Sonata for violin and piano by Aaron Copland, in preparation for my including it in a broadcast of a variety of 20th century music at …

Oxana Shevchenko: Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition On the nineteenth of September 2010, an excited audience in Glasgow’s City Halls saw the emergence of a young, 23-year-old pianist from Kazakhstan, who had …

Mompou by Hough Federico Mompou (pronounced Mom-PO) was born in Barcelona in 1893 but spent much of his adult life in France. Mompou studied piano at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu before going …

Brahms Piano Quintet and more… I listened to this CD again today, and it is one terrific recording; the Brahms Quintet for piano and strings is a glorious work by the Master. Originally it was …

Richard Strauss works for winds This is a delightful recording. It presents several unfamiliar but beautiful works by Richard Strauss, and it features the principal wind players of the Chicago Symphony, who, not surprisingly, are …