Christiane Karg.
Christiane Karg’s new recording: “Scene!” Christiane Karg is one of my favorite sopranos, not only because of her voice. Beyond that, she is able to bring a huge emotional quality to her performances, and …
Recordings Archive
Paganini’s Violin.
Nicolo Paganini. Many musicologists consider Paganini to be the greatest violinist the world has ever known. He essentially created techniques for the violin that were unheard of before him, and to this day, his …
Tennstedt’s Beethoven.
Conductor Klaus Tennstedt had a distinguished career and he specialized in the music of Wagner, Bruckner, as well as the classical composers. He died at age 71 in 1998. In his early years, he …
Uchida Conducts.
Uchida conducts and performs. As a young girl, Mitsuko Uchida and her family lived in Vienna, Austria, where her father was Japan’s Ambassador. And Ms. Uchida was right in the heart of Mozart’s old world, …
Lesser Known Violin Music.
David Oistrakh performs: Glazunov and Kabalevsky Violin Concertos. The violin concertos by Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn have remained hugely popular over the years. Yes, the Sibelius concerto and a few others have become …