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Joseph Haydn’s remarkable Opus 20 quartets are rightfully regarded as landmarks in the history of the string quartet development. Throughout these six contrasting quartets the composer employs compositional techniques that were to shape and define the …

As an amateur violinist I was a member of several orchestras that included the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra and the San Jose Symphony. There is no better way to become connected to a wonderful composition than …

Bomsori Kim is regarded as one of today’s most exciting instrumentalists. Winner of the 62nd ARD International Music Competition, Bomsori’s exceptional abilities and the poise of her musicianship have been recognized by many of the …

J. S. Bach may have been the first to write harpsichord concertos, and even those concertos are more rewritten than written. With only two likely exceptions (including the Fifth Brandenburg), Bach’s 15 concertos for harpsichord …

I love the way in which German Soprano Christiane Karg sings the songs by Richard Strauss. She has the sense, I believe, that Strauss composed so many of these songs for his wife, Pauline, who …