Composers Archive

Frederic Chopin A huge part of Frederic Chopin’s music was composed for solo piano, or for piano and orchestra. Here and there are a few chamber music pieces, but these are not many. Yesterday I …

David Oistrakh, violinist I had the opportunity this past week to renew my connection with the performance aspects of Russian violinist, David Oistrakh, who died in 1974. What an absolutely amazing violinist he was! His …

Prokofiev’s Flute Sonata This CD features the following sonatas for flute and piano: • Gabriel Pierne’: Sonata Op. 36 • Niels Gade: Sonata Number 2, Op. 21 • Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata number 2, Op. 94 …

Alice Sara Ott was born in Munich in 1988 and received her first piano lessons when she was four. Since then, the German-Japanese pianist and student of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Salzburg Mozarteum has won …

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Bruckner, Sibelius & Nielsen Gustavo Dudamel has had a meteoric rise to fame among symphony conductors. He is young, has a huge repertoire, and was capable to attracting major opportunities to perform. …