Composers Archive

This recording brings us a Russian orchestral showcase from Vasily Petrenko and the award willing Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Ravel’s brilliant orchestration of Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ and Khachaturian’s romantic suite from his ballet ‘Spartacus’ …

Mozart composed this music between 1779 and 1780. Scored for a very small group of players, this work was probably written to commemorate the graduation of a close friend of Mozart’s, Sigmund Robinig, from his …

Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the fifth child and second surviving son of JS Bach and his first wife Maria Barbara. By his own account he had no other teacher for composition and keyboard except …

Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770. That is 249 years ago today! Words are inadequate. Let us celebrate by listening to his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, as played by violinist Yitzhak …

I really enjoy chamber music composed for wind instruments. On this recording there are five instruments: Oboe, clarinet, flute, bassoon and horn. When Anton Rejcha was 10, he ran away from his Prague home, and …