Composers Archive

Beethoven: Symphony #9 The Ninth Symphony is Beethoven’s major symphonic achievement and one of the greatest symphonic masterworks in Western classical music. Its glorious last movement climaxes with four vocal soloists and full chorus singing …

Bizet: Carmen (highlights) Performed by Leontyne Price (Carmen), Franco Corelli (Don José), Mirella Freni (Micaëla), Robert Merrill (Escamillo) With the Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, (Vienna State Opera Choir), conducted by Herbert von Karajan About …

Sviatoslav Richter plays Rachmaninov and Prokofiev A whole lot has been written about the Russian school of playing the piano. I have read some of this material, and I know from listening carefully that the …

J. S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos Bach’s Keyboard Concertos with their amazing, contemplative slow movements, can be numbered among the greatest masterpieces of the Baroque era. Although based on existing violin or oboe concertos, and more …

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major Live-recording from Munich, Germany, December, 2011 Two years before his death, Gustav Mahler composed his Ninth Symphony, the last one he was able to complete. In view of …