Recordings Archive

Solti Conducts Elgar While I have appreciated the music of Mozart, Brahms, Mahler, and others for 60 years or so, I am a latecomer to enjoying Elgar’s music. I have done posts on Elgar’s Cello …

Charles Mackerras conducts Brahms Serenades Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 7 May 1833; and he died in Vienna, Austria, on 3 April 1897. The two serenades are wonderful works from Brahms’ early …

Spectacular Performance of Haydn’s Last 3 String Quartets This is an amazing CD for several reasons: Haydn wrote these lat 3 quartets in 1799; think of it: Mozart had died 8 years earlier! In fact …

Gil Shaham performs the Sibelius and Tchaikovsky concertos When I last counted, there were 16 different recordings of the Sibelius violin concerto, performed mostly by contemporary violinists, as well as a few notable others, such …

Essential Yo Yo Ma: A performance of highlight movements and shorter pieces I am usually not a fan of CD’s that contain highlights of music, other than possibly Opera, where I may want to hear …