Recordings Archive

Today (Saturday) I actively listened to Mozart’s Symphony #38, known as the “Prague Symphony”. The performance was conducted by Sir Charles MacKerras, and it was terrific! Mozart composed his Symphony #38 in 1786, and the First …

Dmitry Shostakovich had completed his First Violin Concerto during the 1950’s, and he dedicated it to the great Soviet violinist David Oistrakh. But the score was not suitable to the the times. It was too abstract, …

Czech horn player Radek Baborák, who for a number of years was a soloist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, is an artist with a desire for seeking out the new, and he has joined forces with other …

Franz Schubert received his first violin lessons as a young boy from his father. At the age of 11 he was accepted as a member of the choir of the imperial court chapel, and as …

There are times when a quote from another publication says it all: “the slow third movement… moves along at a pace few conductors would have employed fifty years ago. Yet it never sounds hurried, and …