Composers Archive

The Cello Concerto by Antonio Dvorak represents the zenith of every cellist’s objectives. If you can master this piece, you have arrived as a professional musician. The legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich shows us on this …

Early this morning I listened to the amazing coloratura soprano Rita Streich, whom I had heard a few times as a boy, while my family lived in Vienna. She sang the aria from Mozart’s Opera, …

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Live-Recording: Munich, Philharmonie im Gasteig, performed by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons conducting. Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is primarily regarded as the composer’s reaction to the diagnosis of a …

Liszt/Wagner: As performed by Imogen Cooper Liszt: Valse oubliée No. 2, S.215/2 Gretchen aus Faust-Symphonie, S513 Sposalizio (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 1) Il penseroso (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 2) …

Pianist Lambert Orkis and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter have given recitals since 1998. After that amount of time, I would think that musicians may be able to anticipate each other’s sensitive nuances, which make music interpretations …