Conductors Archive

In the summer of 1783, Mozart made his return trip home to Vienna from Salzburg. He stopped at the city named Linz, where Mozart’s patron, Count Thun, offered him his hospitality. During his time in …

Robert Schumann completed his symphony #4 in 1841. Schumann heavily revised the symphony in 1851, and it was this version that reached publication. Schumann’s revision of the symphony #4 did not change the unique form …

Mozart’s A-major Piano Concerto replaces the bright-toned oboes usually found in Mozart’s concertos with clarinets, for darker coloration, particularly in the passionate, richly chromatic slow movement in the rare key of F-sharp minor. But unlike …

When I think of David Oistrakh, what comes to mind are the amazing violin concertos of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and more. Today I have for you the same amazing musician in a different role: Here …

Like so many millions of other music lovers, I, too, have not attended a LIVE concert until today. And this afternoon, 014/09/2022, this drought was broken when I attended the concert by the English Baroque …