Michelangeli
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Mozart Piano Concertos I always get excited when I hear young pianists of today, who “carry the torch” of music into the future. Still, there are artists of the past whose …
Composers Archive
Marriage of Figaro
Mozart’s “Figaro” Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Recorded live at Glyndebourne Festival, June 2012 Mozart’s opera “Le nozze di Figaro” is witty yet also contains pain and sadness. This life in the day of …
Stradivari violins
A Violin’s Life: The Lipinski Stradivarius In this recording, Frank Almond, leader of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, traces the and history of a famous violin made by Antonio Stradivari, called the “Lipiński” Strad”. As an …
Debussy’s World
Debussy: Four-Hand Piano Music Like so many musicians, I just love the music of Claude Debussy. He was a master orchestrator as shown in compositions such as “La Mer”. And his chamber music, including his …
Mahler’s Symphony #1
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major ‘Titan’ Performed by the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, conducted by Edo de Waart Back in 1959, when I accepted my first position as a computer engineer, I moved to …