Smetana’s Homeland Sounds.
Smetana: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2. Like the music of Antonin Dvorak, composer Bedřich Smetana succeeded in painting his native Czech countryside. And his two quartets show us this country in it full passion …
Composers Archive
Fine Young Quartet.
Klenke Quartet Performs: Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 ‘Quartettsatz‘ String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 ‘Rosamunde’ String Quartet No. 4 in C major, D46 …
Janine Jansen plays Bach.
Janine Jansen plays Bach. On this recording, we hear the following selections: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1042 Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV1041 Concerto for Oboe, Violin …
Gerstein’s Brahms.
Kirill Gerstein, pianist. I became familiar with the performances of Mr. Gerstein, because he frequently plays with one of my favorite violists, Tabea Zimmermann. And it is not a great surprise that Kirill …
Mahler’s Sixth.
World Orchestra for Peace performs Mahler. The World Orchestra for Peace was founded in 1995 by Sir Georg Solti to reaffirm, in his words, “the unique strength of music as an ambassador for …