Composers Archive

Portraits: The Clarinet Album This album features clarinet concertos by Copland, Spohr, and Cimarosa, plus arrangements of short pieces. Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet, is accompanied on the recording by the Rotterdam Philharmonic under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The …

Mariss Jansons conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 Like many musicians and music lovers, I recall very clearly when I first heard Mahler’s Symphony #2: I was on vacation in London; my wife was tired and …

Dance and Quartet: Three Ballets with accompaniment by string quartet Back in the 1800’s, when entertainment was all in live form, musicians and composers created combinations of instruments to provide entertainment. That led to the …

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 and Overtures When I was 14, my family and I arrived in the US as new immigrants; we lived in Brooklyn, NY. Soon I was enrolled in Lafayette High School, …

J.S. Bach: Double and Triple Concertos The dynamic ensemble ‘Brecon Baroque’ was founded in 2007 by violinist and director Rachel Podger as the resident ensemble at her annual Brecon Baroque Festival. Brecon Baroque specializes in …