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Schubert Lieder

Schubert Lieder

Schubert: Willkommen und Abschied The CD title means Welcome and taking leave/saying good-bye… Nice title for the mood and emotion that these songs evoke…   Schubert: Heidenröslein, D257 Schlaflied D527 (Mayrhofer) Wiegenlied D867 (Seidl) Geheimes, …
Osmo Vanska

Osmo Vanska

Vanska’s Sibelius For me, the composer Jean Sibelius created amazing sounds to depict the cold, frigid landscape of the Finnish countryside. And his music went on to become a favorite of mine and of a …
Faust’s Beethoven

Faust’s Beethoven

Isabelle Faust Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 Berg: Violin Concerto ‘To the Memory of an Angel’ (1935) Performed by Isabelle Faust, violin, and the Orchestra Mozart, conducted …
David Oistrakh

David Oistrakh

The Very Best of David Oistrakh There may well be some of you, my readers, who possibly have not heard the name, David Oistrakh. Back in the 1950’s and later, he was a very well-known …