Composers Archive

Later this month, a new recording will be issued by one of my favorite sopranos, Christiane Karg. I love her performances because they are filled with passion, strong emotions, and great expressiveness that is sure …

Gustav Mahler was a somewhat superstitious person. He knew that Beethoven’s last symphony was the Ninth, and so Mahler avoided that number. Ultimately the Ninth was completed after Mahler created his “Lied Von Der Erde”. …

Mozart’s opera  “Die Zauberfloete” has been performed thousands of times since it was first performed in Vienna on September 30th 1791. Mozart himself was the conductor and the person who wrote the lyrics sang the …

Our kids are heading back to school, and the summer concerts everywhere are almost over. For my friends in Germany and in Austria, I have one more concert to recommend to you: At the northwest …

It really is no surprise that Joseph Haydn’s string quartets have remained so popular with audiences. Why? Because when they were composed my sense is that they were way ahead of their times. Today I …