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Bela Bartók: Violin Concertos Numbers 1 and 2 Violinist Isabelle Faust returns to the music of Bela Bartok, performing the two concertos, accompanied by Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In today’s concert …

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration Tanglewood is one of the world’s most beloved music festivals, and it serves as the summer home for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). I was there many years ago, and I …

Copland conducts Copland. Aaron Copland died in 1990, so this is clearly an old recording. I bring this to you, however, because of its obvious value in having the composer be the interpreter, as well …

Violinist Lisa Batiashvili Early this morning I listened to violinist Lisa Batiashvili play the music of Schubert and Cesar Frank. While I have played these same compositions myself, I inevitably compared her playing to other …

Franz Schubert: The last two piano sonatas, D. 959 and D. 960 Austrian composer Franz Schubert was facing the end of his life at age 31, and both of these sonatas reflect the seriousness of …