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Tokyo String Quartet: Quartets by Dvorak and Smetana The announcement of Kazuhide Isomura and Kikuei Ikeda’s retirement from the Tokyo String Quartet in June, 2013 led to the disbanding of the quartet following the end …

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Mozart Piano Concertos I always get excited when I hear young pianists of today, who “carry the torch” of music into the future. Still, there are artists of the past whose …

Mozart’s “Figaro” Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Recorded live at Glyndebourne Festival, June 2012 Mozart’s opera “Le nozze di Figaro” is witty yet also contains pain and sadness. This life in the day of …

Toscanini: The Maestro The year was about 1955, and I was living in Denver, Colorado. I recall that I was sitting on the floor, right next to our family’s “Hi-Fi”, which in those days was …

A Violin’s Life: The Lipinski Stradivarius In this recording, Frank Almond, leader of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, traces the and history of a famous violin made by Antonio Stradivari, called the “Lipiński” Strad”. As an …