Schumann Plays Verdi.
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 …
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Michelangeli Performs.
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’s Third and Fourth.
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; …
Bruckner’s Music.
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 …
Orchestral Pieces.
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 …