Composers Archive

  Mozart: Violin Sonatas. These recordings of Mozart’s Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin have received countless awards, including multiple Diapason d’Or awards and Gramophone Editor’s Choices, and hailed as ‘benchmark’ recordings. they are now …

  Anniversary Concert. On Sunday, October 19, 2014 I attended a delightful concert by the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The group has been the resident quartet at Stanford University for the past 25 years. During …

  Gil Shaham performs: 1930’s Violin Concertos. The time during the 1930’s was an incredibly rich decade for the violin concerto. Over 30 violin concertos materialized across the decade, with well over a dozen – …

  Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas and Clarinet Trio. The 20-year-old clarinetist Raphaël Sévère, and pianist Adam Laloum demonstrate that in the burnished colors of these sonatas, the composer chose the clarinet to bid a melancholy farewell …

The founding of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the first of May, 1882 is celebrated annually with a concert in a European city of cultural significance. In 2014 the Europakonzert took place in Berlin. This concert …