Conductor Zubin Mehta at age 26…
Just look at this image: Zubin Mehta, at the age of 26, was the youngest ever conductor to head a major American orchestra. Truly ingenious, he led them to international acclaim. This DVD was recorded …
Composers Archive
Stravinsky’s Symphony #1 in E-Flat
Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony #1 was composed in 1905–1907 and revised in 1913. It lasts for about forty minutes. This symphony was the very first Stravinsky work that was published; it carries the identification “Opus 1”. …
Sviatoslav Richter Plays Chopin
Sometimes words are inadequate… So I invite you to actively listen to the music:
Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Double Concerto
Brahms’ string concertos are both connected with the musicians for whom the works were written. He wrote the Violin Concerto for Joseph Joachim and in it Brahms combined what a contemporary critic termed ‘the great …
The Three Harpsichord Concerti by Bach
Over the past five years, pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has made three recordings dedicated to Shostakovitch, Brahms et Rachmaninov. Evgeni Koroliov is a great master of the piano, a great Bach specialist, whose recordings of Bach …