Composers Archive

Music has been an important part of my life for a very long time. Back in the 1950’s I had my first experience as a member of a symphony orchestra. I learned music that I …

While Antonin Dvorak is very well known for his Symphony #9 (From the new world), he also composed other music that is worthy of your attention. Today I will tell you about Dvorak’s Piano Trios, …

I am most familiar with the performances of Kirill Gerstein as a participant in chamber music, or as accompanist of violinists and violists. In this recording he appears solo, in works by Franz Liszt. Liszt: …

I enjoy much of the music composed by Johannes Brahms. Some of his compositions are grand and fairly long, such as the German Requiem, the two piano concerti, and the symphonies. Yet Brahms was also …

There was always a lot of music in my home, when I grew up. Perhaps that is the source of my love of the sound of the viola. On this new recording we hear a …