Daniel Barenboim is one musician whom I admire greatly; not only as a conductor, and as a pianist, but also as a human being. I listened to Mr. Barenboim this morning, as he played the …
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck conducting, with Ms. Sunhae Im (soprano) This new recording of the Fourth Symphony in G Major is the second release by the Pittsburgh …
Stravinsky: Symphonies & Concertos I was just thrilled to listen to Stravinsky’s Firebird last week; what amazing music that is. Still change is tough in music, too. And new ways of expressing music, emotion, rhythms, …
Thomas Adès multimedia concerto The English composer Thomas Adès, was born on March 1, 1971, and he studied music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and also at Cambridge University. He …
Symphony #2 by Gustav Mahler Leonard Bernstein was nuts about Mahler. He connected with him; he even on occasion said that when performing Mahler’s music he felt that he WAS Mahler. And certainly they shared …