Recordings Archive

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 Pierre Audi (Director) This recording is a joyous and delightful performance of Mozart’s opera, Die Zauberflote. The bright staging of Pierre Audi and the set design of Karel Appel seem to …

Russian Child Prodigies The film COMPETITORS tells the story of success and failure in the world of classical music. Approaching the four subjects of this DVD, and combined with moving flashbacks from the film “Russia’s …

Copland Violin Sonata Recently I have been listening to the Sonata for violin and piano by Aaron Copland, in preparation for my including it in a broadcast of a variety of 20th century music at …

Oxana Shevchenko: Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition On the nineteenth of September 2010, an excited audience in Glasgow’s City Halls saw the emergence of a young, 23-year-old pianist from Kazakhstan, who had …

Mompou by Hough Federico Mompou (pronounced Mom-PO) was born in Barcelona in 1893 but spent much of his adult life in France. Mompou studied piano at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu before going …