Christiane Karg.
Christiane Karg’s new recording: “Scene!” Christiane Karg is one of my favorite sopranos, not only because of her voice. Beyond that, she is able to bring a huge emotional quality to her performances, and …
Haydn Archive
DVD of the Month: Dudamel
Gustavo Dudamel. I enjoyed listening to “The European Concert” DVD yesterday. In that recording, Gustavo Dudamel leads the Berlin Philharmonic in works by Brahms, Haydn, and Beethoven. The concert is presented in the old …
Schubert.
Franz Schubert: Piano Music collection. Austrian-born composer Franz Schubert was a lonely figure in musical history. He was a dreamer who brought to music a degree of intimacy, despair, hope and disappointment previously unknown. …
Music for Winds.
Claudio Abbado conducts: Music of Haydn and Mozart. This CD pays tribute to the late conductor Claudio Abbado, who died in January 2014. In 2004, he founded the ‘Orchestra Mozart’ as a meeting-place for …
Distant Beloved.
Ferne Geliebte (Distant Beloved). German Lieder sung by Christian Gerhaher. In this CD, Christian Gerhaher and his long-term pianist, Gerold Huber, teamed up to perform songs from the old as well as new Viennese …