Hagen String Quartet! In my view, the Hagen Quartet is the premier string quartet group in the world. Three of its members are siblings. The exception is the second violin player. As a performing group, …
Netrebko’s Passion! Anna Netrebko was born in Krasnodar, in Russia, in 1971. She received her vocal training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she appeared as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Violetta in …
John Eliot Gardiner’s Brahms! This audio CD will be issued today, Sept. 28, 2010 The performance of the Brahms Fourth Symphony on this CD, is taken from concerts at the Southbank Centre in London in …
Andras Csaki, Guitar! The Hungarian guitarist, András Csáki, began to play the guitar at the age of 11. In 1996 he was admitted to the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music, and in the year of …
Mahler / Lucerne Orchestra! My personal learning and understanding of Mahler’s music began when I was a member of an orchestra in Minneapolis, and we worked very hard on the preparation and performance of Mahler’s …