by Barry Lenson | Sep 21, 2022 | Franz Josef Haydn, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Uncategorized
Members of Classical Archives can listen to all 11 CDs of this history-making recording now Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s 11-CD Chandos recording of all 65 of Franz Josef Haydn’s piano sonatas has been creating a major stir in the world of classical music. In BBC’s Classical...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Many people think of Vladimir Horowitz as a Russian-American pianist. But that is not the case. Horowitz was born on October 1, 1904 in Kyiv. He studied at the Conservatory there before starting a career that took him across the world. Listen to Horowitz Play Robert...
by Barry Lenson | Dec 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
What is your favorite piece of Christmas choral music? You might answer Handel’s Messiah or Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Those are masterpieces. But have you heard the beautiful oratorio for Christmas that was written about a century earlier by the German...
by Barry Lenson | Dec 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
LISTEN NOW if you are a member of Classical Archives Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera that the American composer Gian Carlo Menotti created for the NBC Opera Theatre. Thought to be the first opera created for television, Amahl was first performed and telecast...
by Barry Lenson | Aug 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
We learned this week that Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas recently had surgery for a brain tumor. What unsetting news! Yet we have also learned that MTT (as his legions of fans like to call him) is mending up just fine and is planning to return to the podium to conduct...
by Barry Lenson | Jun 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
The compositions of the great harpist and harp pedagogue Carlos Salzedo are beloved by harpists and lovers of music for the harp. And now on Iridescence, her new CD on the Stradivarius label, the magnetic Italian harpist Antonella Ciccozzi shows us with no doubt...
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