Dvorak’s Concertos
Antonin Dvorak: Complete Concertos. Composer Antonin Dvorak is best known for his symphonies and his chamber music. Yet he also wrote three concertos: One for piano, one for violin, and his best-known Concerto for …
Composers Archive
Winds and Piano
Mozart and Beethoven: Quintets for Winds & Piano. The Staatskapelle Dresden unquestionably belongs to the world’s great orchestras. As such,when the outstanding wind soloists of this fine orchestra, together with the Munich-based pianist …
Rite of Spring
Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”: Two versions. The premiere of Stravinsky’s ‘Le sacre du printemps’ is legendary. It caused a full-blown scandal in Paris in 1913 even though the previous year the composer had participated in …
Emil Gilels performs
Emil Gilels in Prague. Pianist Emil Gilels, like Svjatoslav Richter, his fellow citizen from Odessa, liked to visit the city of Prague, the city that adored Mozart. There, they felt free to set aside …
Midori plays Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006 Performed by Midori (violin) Every major violinist will at some point of her/his career face the enormous challenge of mastering the sonatas and Partritas …