Dvorak’s Concertos
Antonin Dvorak: Complete Concertos. Composer Antonin Dvorak is best known for his symphonies and his chamber music. Yet he also wrote three concertos: One for piano, one for violin, and his best-known Concerto for …
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Winds and Piano
Mozart and Beethoven: Quintets for Winds & Piano. The Staatskapelle Dresden unquestionably belongs to the world’s great orchestras. As such,when the outstanding wind soloists of this fine orchestra, together with the Munich-based pianist …
Rite of Spring
Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”: Two versions. The premiere of Stravinsky’s ‘Le sacre du printemps’ is legendary. It caused a full-blown scandal in Paris in 1913 even though the previous year the composer had participated in …
Barenboim plays Brahms
Johannes Brahms: The Piano Concertos. This album was recorded live at the Berliner Philharmonie in September 2014 with high critical acclaim of the performances. Not only the common South American roots of both …
Olga Pashchenko
Olga Pashchenko performs Beethoven. For her new recording, pianist Olga Pashchenko has chosen the combination of Beethoven’s two Opus 49 sonatas and three sets of his variations, thus tackling what are commonly called ‘smaller …