Composers Archive

Alicia de Larrocha, was a diminutive Spanish pianist esteemed for her elegant Mozart performances and regarded as an incomparable interpreter of Albéniz, Granados, Mompou and other Spanish composers. In a career that began when she …

For the first time today I listened with great enjoyment to violinist Richard Lin as he played the music of Paganini. He played with outstanding technical ability and also with great style that was totally …

Conductor Carlos Kleiber died on July 13, 2004 in Slovenia. In my view he was the most amazing orchestral and Opera leader of the past 200 years. Kleiber was the son of a famous conductor …

I find it interesting to occasionally listen to early recordings made by today’s well-known artists. Today I have for you some early recordings made by Martha Argerich. The works we get to hear are: Prokofiev: …

Performing with Mr. Revich is the pianist Fiorenzo Pascalucci. Beethoven composed his Kreutzer Sonata for Piano and Violin in 1803. Beethoven understood how different this new sonata was from any that had come before, including …