Reviews Archive

  Julia Fischer plays Saint-Saëns and Grieg. Earlier this week, on January 27th, it was the 259th birthday of Mozart. As some sort of “celebration”, I listened very carefully to Ms. Julia Fischer perform the …

    Great Instruments. This is the first of a series of posts I intend to prepare in which I will feature historic instruments, and the well-known artists who performed on them. The first post …

  Grigory Sokolov: The Salzburg Recital. Over the past several nights, I have ended my day by listening to pianist Grigory Sokolov play the music of Beethoven. It is futile for me to tell you …

  Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor. Performed by the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, conducted by Ricardo Chailly. This is one of the truly great compositions by Gustav Mahler. It is filled with …

  Prokofiev and Shostakovich: Cello Concertos. A new album from Cellist Steven Isserlis features the creative Prokofiev Cello Concerto from the 1930’s. Years later, Dmitry Shostakovich composed his Cello concerto, which was written for Mstislav …