Celebrating Mischa Maisky´s 65th Birthday in January 2013 with 10 of his classic DG albums
CD 1: Bach: Six Suites For Solo Cello Nos. 1, 2 & 6 CD 2: Bach: Six Suites For Solo Cello Nos. 3, 4 & 5 CD 3: Mischa Maisky…
Quatuor Domus : Fauré’s Piano Quartets [Hyperion]
This is music that is constantly intriguing and beautifully. The First Piano Quartet reveals Fauré’s debt to an earlier generation of composers, particularly Mendelssohn. Yet already it has the refined sensuality,…
Austrian contemporary composer KURT SCHWERTSIK (born 25 June 1935, Vienna)
He is famous for creating the “Third Viennese School” and spreading contemporary classical music.A pupil of Joseph Marx and Karl Schiske at the Academy of Music in Vienna, he later studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne and Darmstadt. In…
American composer SAMUEL BARBER (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981)
Samuel Barber is widely known for his famous Adagio for Strings, the slow movement of a string quartet he wrote in 1936. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1910, he was…
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
The later 19th century brought an increasing consciousness of national identity to various ethnic groups in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Antonín Dvořák, born in a Bohemian village where…
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828)
The son of a schoolmaster who had settled in Vienna, Franz Schubert was educated as a chorister of the imperial court chapel. He later qualified as a schoolteacher, briefly and…
Italian Baroque composer TOMASO GIOVANNI ALBINONI
TOMASO GIOVANNI ALBINONI (1671 – 1751) A contemporary of Vivaldi in Venice, Albinoni claimed to have written some 80 operas (which are now generally neglected) and a variety of instrumental…
The Master Singer BERNART DE VENTADORN
Bernart de Ventadorn (1130-1140 – 1190–1200), also known as Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn, was a prominent troubador of the classical age of troubadour poetry. Now thought of…
ALEXANDER KONSTANTINOVICH GLAZUNOV
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor. He served as director of the Saint…
English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist,John Dowland
JOHN DOWLAND (1563 – 1626) John Dowland, of English or possibly Irish origin, was born in 1563, probably in London. He was a lutenist of distinction but failed, allegedly because…