Artists Archive

As most music lovers know, this year we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. And certainly the market will be filled with amazing offerings of recorded performances. Today we have for you a …

On occasion it is good to reach back to the past and listen to performers who are no longer with us. Today let me share with you and have you listen to pianist Pal Badura-Skoda. …

The Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478, bears the date 16th October 1785 and was completed on that date in Vienna. By the 20th November Mozart was writing to Hoffmeister with some urgency, seeking money. By …

Composer Frederick Chopin was a master at communicating emotion through music. Chopin composed most of his nocturnes in groups of two or three pieces. The pair that comprises his Opus 27 dates from 1835. The …

The Trio No. 1 in B-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 898, was written by Franz Schubert in 1827. The composer finished the work in 1828, in the last year of his life. …