Mozart, Ives and Verdi: String Quartets. On this CD, the Schumann Quartet offers us three works from three different periods in music: Charles Ives lived from 1874 to 1954; Mozart died in 1791; and …
Michelangeli plays Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was born on January 5, 1920 in Brescia, Italy, and he died on June 12, 1995, in Lugano, Switzerland. Although I never heard …
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4. Both of these symphonies are among my great favorites of Gustav Mahler’s works. And for different reasons: I visited the place in Austria where the Third was composed; …
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Performed by the Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim conducting. I still have difficulty connecting with Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Whenever I make a serious effort to listen …
Wagner: Preludes and Interludes. I am one of those folks who have never connected with the Wagner operas. I find them too serious, too “stuffy”, and also lacking in any humor. This might also …