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My musical education has brought me the awareness that performing the music of Fritz Kreisler requires a special feeling and special training. Even a giant violinist as Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) went to study with Fritz …

On this CD, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has recorded two Chopin recitals for The Fryderyk Chopin Institute: one on modern piano, the other on period piano. The same program in two different sound versions. This is …

I have been enjoying the Bruckner 4th recently. The reason is that I love the opening Horn solo that is repeated at various times. The sound is so haunting and wonderful. So… I decided to …

I listened to one of my favorite pieces by Franz Schubert today: The Fantasie in F-Minor, as performed by Lucas and Arthur Jussen. The Jussen brothers have been national figures in the Netherlands since early childhood. …

The  excellent German soprano Anna Lucia Richter explores the heart-wrenching, timeless and universal feeling of “Heimweh” (German for homesickness) through a collection of extraordinary Schubert songs. Richter approaches the notion of Heimweh from several perspectives: …