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Strauss, R: Capriccio The singers are: Renée Fleming (Countess), Bo Skovhus (Count), Michael Schade (Flamand), Markus Eiche (Olivier), Angelika Kirchschlager (Clairon), Kurt Rydl (La Roche) With the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Christoph …

This recording features excellent quartet playing in the grand, classical manner: Romantic music performed by the Escher String Quartet. Composed between 1873 (Tchaikovsky) and 1893 (Dvorák), the three quartets gathered on this disc form a …

Mozart composed concertos for piano and orchestra. Beethoven composed five. Brahms lived in the shadow of these two great composers who preceeded him. And Brahms’ piano concertos proved to be masterpieces in their own right. …

I have played violin since age 7. And my father was an excellent violinist,  much more skilled than I ever was. As such, violin music was quite prominent in oir home when I was a …

On this excellent recording pianists Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan present two stunning selections from Prokofiev’s music for stage and screen in magnificent two-piano transcriptions by Babayan. The album features Babayan’s twelve-movement transcription of selections from …