Bernard Haitink conducts Richard Strauss: ‘Don Juan’ and ‘Ein Heldenleben’. Richard Strauss was only 25 years old when his tone-poem ‘Don Juan’ was premiered in 1889, and it was a musical depiction of a …
Gustav Mahler: Symphony #3. Gustav Mahler said that his music, particularly the symphonies, represent “The whole world”. For the past two days I have listened to Mahler’s Symphony #3, which was composed at the …
Orchestral Rehearsals. I was 15 years old when I joined my first orchestra in Brooklyn, New York. As the years passed, I played in many other groups in Minneapolis, Denver, Palo Alto, and more. …
Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works Vol. II This CD represents the second volume of the complete recording of Robert Schumann‘s orchestral works. The series includes all the symphonies (with both versions of the Fourth) as …
Simon Rattle conducts at the “El Sistema” At the Salzburg Festival “El Sistema” is the internationally famous group from Venezuela, which performed at the Salzburg Festival in 2013 to show their musical and educational …