Composers Archive

This is a selection of intimate, and short compositions by Rachmaninov as interpreted with fine technical precision by Sergei Babayan. “Music is born only in the heart and it appeals only to the heart; it is …

Mozart died in Vienna on December 5, 1791. He completed his String Quintet KV 614 on 12 April 1791. At that time he was also composing his Opera, “The Magic Flute”. One of the fascinating …

Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor, Opus 61 was composed between 1909 and 1910 and dedicated to the violinist Fritz Kreisler. As the scheduled first performance of the concerto neared, Elgar recruited his family …

It is amazing that Sergei Rachmaninov ever wrote a second symphony. He was so shattered by the terrible premiere of his first symphony in 1897—“the most agonizing hour of my life,” as he later put …

The Czardas is one wonderful folk melody from Hungary; It is a composition by Italian composer Vittorio Monti. A rhapsodical concert piece written in 1904, it is a well-known folkloric piece based on a Hungarian …