Edward Elgar’s Musical Gifts to Us.
Elgar is my favorite British composer, and his “Salut d’Amour” is his charming piece of music written as a musical love letter to Caroline Alice Roberts on the eve of their engagement. Along with the …
Conductors Archive
The Great Frans Brueggen
I am a huge admirer of the late conductor Frans Brueggen. I just recently listened again to the DVD on which is captured his interpretation of Beethoven’s Eroica. Such was the significance of the music …
Music for Cello by Robert Schumann
Cellist Gautier Capuçon participates in each selection of this program of music by Robert Schumann. In the Cello Concerto his partners are Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In the selection of chamber …
Gustav Mahler Symphony #2
Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony began as a single-movement tone poem called Todtenfeier(‘Funeral Rites’). Completed in 1888 – one year before Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration –it echoed the composer’s vision of seeing himself lying dead …
Concert: 9 March 2019, Tabea Zimmermann Performs
Date: Saturday, 9 March 2019 at 14:15 Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam Stenz conducts Bartok and Beethoven Program: Zimmermann, Symphony in One Movement Bartók, Viola Concerto, Sz 120 Kurtág, Petite musique solennelle en hommage à Pierre …