Conductors Archive

In this world premiere recording, one of the greatest cellists of our time, Yo-Yo Ma, performs the Cello Concerto by internationally renowned composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Yo-Yo Ma performs this stunning concerto alongside the …

The London Symphony’s Principal Guest Conductor, Gianandrea Noseda, presents a work of amazing emotional intensity in the first of a new series exploring Tchaikovsky’s final three symphonies. Urgent, exciting, and violent in places, Tchaikovsky’s Fourth is …

At the end of his short life, in 1791, Mozart composed his Requiem. He died before it was completed, and one of his students adapted Mozart’s sketches and untimately completed this work of genius. For …

Here is a new recording just issued this month: Composers Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Works Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 Beethoven: Triple …

Andre Previn died today in New York at age 89. I met him once, briefly, backstage at Carnegie Hall. He had attended a concert by his former wife, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. I recall being surprised …