Recordings Archive

James Levine’s Schumann! I first heard a live performance of James Levine at a concert of chamber music in New York a few years ago. Then at Aspen, Colorado, I heard him perform Mahler’s Symphony …

Netrebko’s Debut album! On occasion a fine debut album from 2003 deserves to be mentioned again: Anna Netrebko’s debut CD shows us a spectrum of vocal styles and characters. This excellent lyric soprano presents Opera …

Hilary Hahn plays Higdon! Hilary Hahn is now 30… AND… still doing wonderful, creative things! In this recording she has given us an old masterpiece, coupled with a new concerto by Jenifer Higdon. I like …

Brahms: Complete Concertos & Symphonies Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor Bernard Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Brahms’s great orchestral works, including the complete four symphonies. The concertos feature three great soloists: pianist …

Domingo sings Ernesto Lacuona! Great combination: Ernesto Lecuona, composer, and Placido Domingo, Tenor! Ernesto Lecuona was a virtuoso pianist and a composer of both classical and popular music. He wrote compositions for piano, opera, movie …