Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”
In a very quiet setting I am listening this morning the the “Goldberg Variations” by Johann Sebastian Bach. Many stories have been written over the past hundreds of years about this composition. Not all these …
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Mozart’s Don Giovanni
I never get tired of listening to Mozart, be it his chamber music, symphonies, instrumental music, and piano concerti. For today, I have foe you: Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 Mahler Chamber Orchestra Daniel Harding, conductor …
Amazing Pianist: Seong-Jin Cho
For the first time this morning I listened to pianist Seong-Jin Cho. And what an experience that was! In the era in which we live, this experience makes me so hopeful when I hear this …
Levine Conducts Mahler 2
This is a recording of the amazing Symphony #2 by Gustav Mahler, with Barbara Kilduff (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), the National Choir ‘Rinat’, The Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir, the Ihud Choir, and The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, …
Daniil Trifonov Plays Rachmaninov
What can one say about what must be one of the more frequently performed works in the concerto repertoire? Well, if you’re Daniil Trifonov then the answer is “quite a lot”. While acknowledging the piece’s …