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Composer Modest Mussorgsky composed “Pictures at an Exhibition” as a memorial to his friend, the Russian artist Viktor Hartmann, who had died in 1873 at age 39. Shortly after the artist’s death, Mussorgsky visited a …

The DVD of the Month at MCN features a new recording of the Symphonies numbers 1 and 4 by Gustav Mahler. Conductor Daniele Gatti and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are presenting unconventional and thought-provoking approaches …

On this DVD, twenty masterpieces by the most important composers in history are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts. Examples from the musical scores help the viewer to follow the themes and …

On this new CD, Bruckner´s Symphony No. 2 is performed wonderfully by the Staatskapelle Dresden, completing their critically acclaimed Bruckner cycle with a concert at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. The music critics praised how lucent and …

The DVD of the Month for September 2019 at My Classical Notes is the Symphony #3 (Eroica) by Ludwig van Beethoven, as conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT). Beethoven spent three years writing the Eroica, …