Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg and Beethoven With the musicians that he loved, the late Claudio Abbado opened for the final time the LUCERNE FESTIVAL in the summer of 2013. Only a few months …
Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet, and more. There are many works by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams that I particularly enjoy. Among these is the well-known “Lark Ascending” for violin and orchestra. This CD invites …
Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63 Performed by the Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Following his recording of Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Alisa Weilerstein, Daniel Barenboim turns to the …
Anne-Sophie Mutter: The Silver Anniversary Album This special 2 – CD collection celebrates 25 years of Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis performing and recording together. Ms. Mutter says: “Meeting Lambert was a stroke of …
Stephen Hough’s new recording: “In the Night” This latest recording by pianist Stephen Hough takes the listener on a journey through that most intense and absorbing of nineteenth-century obsessions, the night. Stephen Hough’s thoughtful …