Composers Archive

Schumann: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 For more than 60 years I have loved Schumann’s music. And the reason is that I am able to find expressive emotion in it. While Robert Schumann was …

Satie & Compagnie French composers Debussy, Ravel, Satie and Poulenc are all featured on this CD. From the gentlest impressionism to the later French styles, the journeys of French music are many and varied – …

Schubert Lieder Volume 7: Erlkönig My mother was trained as a singer in Europe; and while she did not sing much after she became a Mom, she always appreciated and loved the music of Schubert, …

Rachmaninov Rarities Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy has given us some amazing music over the years. What comes to my mind today is actually not this CD, but his performances with violinist Yitzhak Perlman in the three …

Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 4 and 7 The beginning of my own connection with Sergey Prokofiev stems from my enjoyment of his violin concertos. There are two of these, and many of the world’s …