Conductors Archive

As the last completed symphony that Mahler wrote, the Ninth has often been heard by audiences as the moving farewell from a composer conscious of his own mortality. This interpretation is of course easily justifiable, …

Joyce DiDonato is the real entertainer. She seems so comfortable on stage, has a sense of humor, loves her work, and surely loves music. On this recording, With her flexible, mellow mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is …

On this recording, Lisa Batiashvili presents an excellwnt interpretation of Prokofiev’s two violin concertos in another first-class musical partnership with Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. With her unique abilities to turn standard repertoire …

As far as we know, Mozart composed 27 concertos for piano and orchestra. In this recording we hear this final concerto, together with the concerto number 25. This pairing of concertos Nos 25 and 27 …

It occurs to me frequently how difficult it must have been for Johannes Brahms to achieve success as a composer. First of all, he began as a pianist, then as a choral director. He toured …