Composers Archive

Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 in A minor is the symphony that conductor Bruno Walter found to portray ‘a terrifying, hopeless darkness, without a human sound’. Nevertheless, the time period during which Mahler wrote his Sixth …

I came to admire Gautier Capucon when I heard him play the slow movement from a Brahms trio, which is believed to have been Brahms’ expression of love toward Clara Schumann. In this recording, ‘Intuition’, …

All around the world, critics cheered the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists’ previous album of Mozart Divertimenti: ‘superb in every way’ (Fanfare), ‘a joy from start to finish’ (Europadisc), ‘sparkles with joy and chuckles with …

Sergei Rachmaninoff took the genre of the prelude to its highest degree of perfection with his boundless musical invention and fearsome technical demands. Pianist Nikolai Lugansky brilliantly meets the challenge, offering a program of the …

On this recording, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is joined by a highly talented pianist whose approach to music is as extremist as hers, Polina Leschenko. Together they explore pieces that have many points in common. The Hungarian …