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Georg Solti Conducts Live Recording from The Philharmonie Im Gasteig; Munich, Germany. This performance from Munich features the great Georg Solti conducting the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) with works by Anton …

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 If there is one opera that I have watched more than any other, it likely is “The Magic Flute”. While this is a story about “Good and Evil”, it is also …

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 This is the third CD release, which completes this series of Rachmaninov’s symphonies; and it also highlights the Russian heritage of conductor Vasily Petrenko. Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, …

Hilary’s Encores For more than one hundred years, violinists who gave concerts faced the need to choose encores, when their listeners wanted more playing. Hundreds of pieces emerged, written by violinist-composers such as Fritz Kreisler, …

The Wrong concerto! There are all sorts of nightmares: Forgetting to go to a Final Exam, while you were in school; running away from a person who wants to harm you; and yes, beginning to …