Listen to Leonard Bernstein Conducting Beethoven’s Symphonies on Classical Archives

by Barry Lenson | Oct 19, 2023 | Bradley Cooper, Ludwig van Beethoven, Orchestral Conductors, Orchestral Music

  Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in the upcoming movie “Maestro” On November 22nd “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s new film biography of Leonard Bernstein, will be released in theaters. We think it could be one of the most important movies ever made...

Navona Recordings and Parma Recordings – A Label with Big Plans for the Future

by Barry Lenson | Apr 3, 2023 | Choral Music, Opera, Orchestral Music

PARMA Recordings is a highly adventurous and innovative music company headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. PARMA, which issues recordings on the Navona, Ravello, Ansonica, and Big Round Records labels, has very big plans for you and your listening ears. Thanks...

Featured New Release: Andre Cluytens Conducts Ravel

by Barry Lenson | Sep 1, 2016 | French Music, Maurice Ravel, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized

I am enthralled with one of the new releases that are available for listening here on Classical Archives. It is a two-CD recording on the Urania Arts label of the great Belgian/French maestro Andre Cluytens conducting the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du...

Get to Know the Music of Einojuhani Rautavaara on Classical Archives

by Barry Lenson | Aug 12, 2016 | Choral Music, Opera, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized

Einojuhani Rautavaara, widely called the finest Finnish composer since Jean Sibelius, passed away on July 17th in Helsinki at the age of 87. If you’re not familiar with his music (and I have to admit that I have only gotten to know it in the weeks since he died), you...

Enjoy the Arctic Philharmonic’s New Releases Today on Classical Archives

by Barry Lenson | Jul 10, 2016 | Conductors, Orchestral Conductors, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized

  Why the Hottest New Orchestra Comes from North of the Arctic Circle Where does today’s hottest young orchestra come from? If you ask the next five or six music lovers you meet, most of them will probably answer that it must come from south of the border where...

Let’s Meet Jaap van Zweden . . . with a little help from Classical Archives

by Barry Lenson | Jun 29, 2016 | Conductors, New York Philharmonic, Orchestral Conductors, Orchestral Music, Uncategorized

Let’s begin by watching this promotional video that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra produced about Jaap van Zweden several years ago. If you follow how America’s symphony orchestras hire conductors, you already know that the New York Philharmonic recently engaged...