Composers Archive

This recording features two sides of Richard Strauss’musical personality, with the amazing ‘Burleske’ in D minor as well as his Ein Heldenleben. While the former is a playful, miniature concerto for piano and orchestra, the latter …

Soprano Barbara Hannigan is back with her long-time collaborator, the Dutch pianist and great interpreter of twentieth-century music Reinbert de Leeuw, for a recital exploring the roots of modern music, with the composers who left their …

It was common practice in the 19th century for composers to publish their music in versions for multiple instruments, increasing their audience and appeal. Taking inspiration from this, this recording presents a range of works …

For any lover of classical music, the name “Mahler” is evocative of orchestral color, broad, sweeping symphonic brushstrokes and the culmination of the romantic symphony. However, Mahler wrote with equal mastery in another genre: It …

Composer Robert Schumann frequently felt that the music of Felix Mendelssohn is filled with what Schumann envied as “ease” or “facility”. Schumann’s String Quartet no.1 in E flat major was written in the late summer …