Composers Archive

Olga Scheps seems poised to take on the world.  A young pianist with extraordinary powers of expression, Olga has been enchanting audiences throughout Europe for several years but seems to be little known in the …

Beethoven composed his symphony #2 during the summer and fall of 1802 and conducted the first performance on April 5, 1803, in Vienna. The score calls for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and …

Simone Dinnerstein was born on September 18, 1972; she is an American classical pianist who is noted for her self-financed recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, released in 2007. She studied in the pre-college …

Brahms’ Violin Sonata No.2 in A major, Opus 100, was completed during the summer of 1886, while the composer was on a holiday by Lake Thun, in Switzerland, and it was performed in Vienna in …

I have followed and admired pianist Stephen Hough for many years now. This recording features a collection of Brahmsian miniatures: brief meditations on last things before—in Stephen Hough’s own words—‘the light fades and the final …