Cello Music by Richard Strauss
Most of the time I share music with you that I know and love. Yet there are times when an interesting recording emerges with music that is new to me. This recording is such an …
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Alma Mahler’s Music, CD of the Month
When Gustav Mahler married his wife, Alma, she was not only a beautiful and well-known young woman in Vienna, she was also a competent composer. Her husband asked her at that time to give up …
Zimmermann Plays Shostakovich
Recently, before going to sleep, I have been listening to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, as performed by Frank Peter Zimmerman. On the CD of the Month for January 2017, the same violinist plays …
Ehnes Quartet Plays Schubert
The CD of the Month for December, 2016 is actually not only music by Schubert, but also the quartet ‘Voces Intimae’ by Jean Sibelius. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 ‘Death and …
November CD of the Month: Mahler Songs
This is a recording of music by Gustav Mahler, as arranged for smaller performing groups by Arnold Schoenberg. Mahler (arr. Schoenberg): Songs Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (4 songs, complete) arr. Arnold Schoenberg, with Roderick Williams …