Conductors Archive

Although he made a short preliminary sketch in August 1829, Mendelssohn composed his Scottish Symphony in earnest from late 1840 to January 20, 1842. He dedicated the score to “H.M. Queen Victoria of Great Britain and …

Conductor Carlos Kleiber died on July 13, 2004 in Slovenia. In my view he was the most amazing orchestral and Opera leader of the past 200 years. Kleiber was the son of a famous conductor …

Violinist Julia Fischer was born in 1983, in Munich, Germany. She began taking lessons on the violin at age 3 from Helge Thelen, and at 4 began simultaneous studies on the piano with her mother, …

Many years ago, when a young German composer approached the task of writing symphonies, it was impossible to work outside the shadow of Beethoven. Brahms himself summed up the problem by stating, “You will never …

I heard Lisa Batiashvili for the first time while I was on vacation in Toronto many years ago. She was fairly new to the concert stage, yet I heard a lot of promise in her …