Composers Archive

Shostakovich’s magic Three of my favorite compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich are available on this recording: the Piano Concerto #2, the violin and piano sonata Op. 134, and the concerto for piano, trumpet, and orchestra. The …

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Numbers 7, 12, and 23 ‘Appassionata’ During his lifetime, Sviatoslav Richer mostly performed fewer than half of Beethoven’s sonatas on the concert stage. He simply wanted to emphasize the lesser-known of these …

Shostakovich: Music for viola & piano Performed by Lawrence Power (viola) & Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) The selections are as follows: Shostakovich: Un peu triste (after Prelude No 10) arr. Yevgeny Strakhov Marche funèbre (after Prelude …

Hindemith: “Kammermusik”… and more… This is a collection of Paul Hindemith’s music for several different solo instruments, accompanied by the chamber orchestra of the Berlin Philharmonic. The instruments are piano, cello, violin, viola, viola d’amore, …

Schumann: The Violin Sonatas Robert Schumann’s three Sonatas for violin and piano were all composed between 1851 and 1853, and have been neglected, like other works from this period in the composer’s life. Schumann: Violin …