Conductors Archive

Mutter as Conductor! Many famous instrumentalists are turning to directing orchestras these days: Perlman, Uchida, Murray Perahia, and others. Well… Anne-Sophie Mutter has now joined this distinctive group:  In her recent Mozart Project (done in …

Mahler’s 3rd Symphony When Gustav Mahler first wrote the Symphony #3 around 1890, he provided descriptive titles for each of the movements, and these were taken directly from Nature. It is clear that Mahler was …

Karajan Memorial Concert Anne-Sophie Mutter is among the top 3 Violinists performing today. The story of her professional relationship as a young person with Herbert Von Karajan is well-known, and so it is not a …

Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto We have several Music Masters to celebrate on this DVD: At the core is, of course, W. A. Mozart who composed this masterpiece in 1791 near the end of his short life …

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition I first heard this piece some 60 years ago, when my father took me to a traditional 11 AM concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at their hall, the Musikvereinsahl …