Composers Archive

Pianist Dina Ugorskaja died at age 46 in September 2019. This is her acclaimed recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book II. On interpreting these works, Dina wrote: “One essential aspect in this project was the …

Violinist Vadim Repin was born in Siberia in 1971, and at age 11 he won all categories of the Wienawski Competition. His debuts in Moscow and St. Petersburg followed immediately afterwards and at the age …

Chopin’s music had been absent from David Fray’s active repertoire for some 15 years before he recorded this recital, which comprises seven of the composer’s nocturnes, three mazurkas, a polonaise, a waltz and an impromptu. …

The waltzes of Johann Strauss, Sr. (1804-1849) evoked the air of the Viennese countryside, beer gardens and new white wine (Heurigen). Those of his eldest son, Johann, Jr., at first had the same rhythmic vitality …

In Arnold Schoenberg’s lifetime, almost forty years separate his Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night ) from the Violin Concerto – the former still influenced by the idiom of Brahms and Wagner, the latter deriving from …