Composers Archive

  Franz Schubert: “Wanderers Nachtlied” (Wanderers Night song) Performed by Matthias Goerne (Baritone) In this recording, German-born Baritone Matthias Goerne presents the eighth volume in his ongoing Schubert music. The featured work is Schubert’s setting …

  Prokofiev: Ballet Suites, and more. Sergei Prokofiev was a highly creative composer. I have come to love a lot of his music, particularly his two violin concertos. His ballets are very well known, and …

  Carl Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 Back in 1962, when Leonard Bernstein recorded Carl Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony, this event provided the composer with a wider international visibility some thirty years after his death. …

  Detroit Symphony: Concert review. On Saturday, Feb. 22nd, Houston Symphony conductor laureate Hans Graf conducted the Detroit Symphony in Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6, and violinist Benjamin Schmid performed Erich Wolfgang Korngold‘s Concerto for Violin …

  Grigory Sokolov plays Bach. At the age of 16, pianist Grigory Sokolov won first place at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition, and he has been an active concert performer for more than forty years. …