Composers Archive

Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63 Performed by the Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Following his recording of Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Alisa Weilerstein, Daniel Barenboim turns to the …

  Lugansky’s Beethoven. Pianist Nikolai Lugansky has recorded an intriguing Beethoven recital, combining two famous sonatas with two other less well known but masterful works, the Op.10, number 3, and the Op. 54. Lugansky’s amazing …

  Dmitry Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Numbers 1 and 2. This is the first recording of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under their new artistic director, Vasily Petrenko. Vasily Petrenko is one of the foremost interpreters of …

  The Best of Glenn Gould‘s Bach. So much has been written about the excitement caused by Glenn Gould’s first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in June 1955 that it is hardly necessary to repeat …

  Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 Brahms’ second piano concerto has had a particularly notable history in the city of Dresden, Germany, where the composer himself played the …