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“ELLES”, the new album by the violist Marina Thibeault and pianist Marie-Eve Scarfone features repertoire for viola and piano and viola solo by exceptional 19th and 21st century women composers: Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Nadia Boulanger, …

I am a great fan of conductor John Eliot Gardiner! And the Symphony #2 by Robert Schumann is my favorite among the four symphonies that Schumann composed. I love the Schumann #2 because of its …

In this new concerto album, violinist Christian Tetzlaff performs two violin concertos in fresh new interpretations together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin directed by the orchestra’s exciting new music director, Robin Ticciati. Both Ludwig van …

Today (Saturday) I actively listened to Mozart’s Symphony #38, known as the “Prague Symphony”. The performance was conducted by Sir Charles MacKerras, and it was terrific! Mozart composed his Symphony #38 in 1786, and the First …

Dmitry Shostakovich had completed his First Violin Concerto during the 1950’s, and he dedicated it to the great Soviet violinist David Oistrakh. But the score was not suitable to the the times. It was too abstract, …