Composers Archive

Bach and Immigration… Sixty years ago, in October, 1951, my family and I got off a ship in New York harbor after a long ocean journey from France. We were all seasick, so it was …

J. S. Bach: Concertos for Recorder Something different: Music for Recorder My guess is that this music comes out to make it possible to give someone an unusual Christmas gift. Not just any someone, of …

Aldo’s Mozart Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K331 ‘Alla Turca’ Piano Sonata No. 13 in B flat major, K333 Piano Sonata No. 2 in F, K280 Performed by Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Over …

Tchaikovsky violin concerto Performed by Janine Jansen, violin, with the Mahler chamber orchestra, conducted by Daniel Harding In this CD, Janine Jansen, one of my favorite violinists, offers a Tchaikovsky concerto interpretation that is very …

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor ‘Tragic’ Performed by the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, conducted by Antonio Pappano The Santa Cecilia Orchestra’s Mahler tradition dates back to 1907 and 1910, …