Composers Archive

Seiji Ozawa made his debut on Philips Records with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the 1970’s, and he has conducted it many times over the intervening 45 years, including in a massed performance for the opening of …

This recording invites us to study six symphonies from Haydn’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ period. Daniel Barenboim had been conducting the English Chamber Orchestra for 20 years when he made the first of the three LPs newly …

After “Don Giovanni”, “Così fan tutte” and “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” this is the fourth of DG’s series of seven Mozart operas conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and initiated by Rolando Villazón, Festspielhaus Baden Baden, …

Violinist Gottfried von der Goltz as the head of the Freiburger Barockorchester leads Corelli’s Concerti Grossi, true hits of the baroque repertoire. Recorded by specialists, the program bursts with energy and colors. The various playing …

It seems that the Ninth is a limit. He who wants to go beyond it must pass away. Those who have written a Ninth stood too close to the hereafter.’ Arnold Schoenberg wrote those …