Composers Archive

The poetry and beauty of Bach’s Cello Suites (BWV 1007-1012) are adapted in these remarkable interpretations by violist Kim Kashkashian, offering “a different kind of sombreness, a different kind of dazzlement” as annotator Paul Griffiths …

On this new recording, Bryn Terfel, the great bass-baritone, brings us Welsh folk-songs and light classics as well as heavyweight operatic roles such as Scarpia, Hans Sachs, Wotan and Boris Godunov. Released tomorrow on Deutsche Grammophon, …

In a very quiet setting I am listening this morning the the “Goldberg Variations” by Johann Sebastian Bach. Many stories have been written over the past hundreds of years about this composition. Not all these …

I never get tired of listening to Mozart, be it his chamber music, symphonies, instrumental music, and piano concerti. For today, I have foe you: Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 Mahler Chamber Orchestra Daniel Harding, conductor …

For the first time this morning I listened to pianist Seong-Jin Cho. And what an experience that was!  In the era in which we live, this experience makes me so hopeful when I hear this …