Brahms: Handel Variations and Sonata #3 Johannes Brahms’ Piano Sonata No. 3 is unconventional in its structure, and it is one of the most impressive sonatas since those of Beethoven and Schubert. Brahms never wrote …
The Staatskapelle Dresden performs: Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 Schubert: Symphony in B minor, D759 ‘Unfinished’ Performed by the Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by Sir Colin Davis This recording combines two giant …
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili Early this morning I listened to violinist Lisa Batiashvili play the music of Schubert and Cesar Frank. While I have played these same compositions myself, I inevitably compared her playing to other …
Salzburg Festival 2012. The Salzburg festival in Austria is a major musical event, and it draws world-class artists every year. During that time, in the city of Mozart’s birth, it is next to impossible to …
Mariss Jansons conducts Brahms and Janacek Live Recording from The KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne, 2012 This DVD brings us two works that really are vastly different. Johannes Brahms wrote his second symphony in 1877, while …