Conductors Archive

It was in December, 2015 that Austrian musician Nikolaus Harnoncourt resigned from his professional duties in music. Sigmund Freud wrote many years ago that a man is about Work and Love. At age 86, clearly …

New Year’s Concert 2016 This is a recording of an annual event in Vienna: The historic New Years concert that is presented every year by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. This year’s program includes the following …

I am a huge admirer of the artist and musician Frans Brueggen. Frans Brüggen, a Dutch pioneer of the early music movement, a co-founder and conductor of the Orchestra of the 18th Century, died in …

It came to me early this morning that a fitting tribute to the memory of  conductor Pierre Boulez is the music from Gustav Mahler’s Symphony number 5. The sad Adagietto movement from this masterpiece begins …

The selections on this recording are: Bach, J S: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV1041 Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1042 Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: …