Recordings Archive

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition I first heard this piece some 60 years ago, when my father took me to a traditional 11 AM concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at their hall, the Musikvereinsahl …

Lieberson’s Legacy When a great artist tragically dies, we are fortunate to be left with recordings of the artist’s recitals. This particular Recital, recorded at Ravinia in 2004, features the wonderful, powerful mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt …

Zehetmair Performs Paganini Every world-class violinist studies and at some point performs the 24 Caprices of Paganini. There certainly is a record of excellence from the past of Perlman, Milstein, Heifetz and other fiddlers performing …

Mutter performs Mozart There are only a few rare cases where a composition by Mozart is of less interest to me. On this DVD, there are two such cases: It turns out that I simply …

Alsop conducts Dvorak 9 When Marin Alsop became the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony a couple of years ago, there was an amazing outcry on the part of some of the orchestra members: Seems they …