Classical Archives
Mozart: Flute Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Concerto for Flute and Harp - Ever since word got out that our almost-10-year-old daughter will be going to Yale in the fall, people have been asking how she got in.
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky - Alexander Nevsky directed by Sergei Eisenstein music by Serge Prokofiev The greatest score in all of film --- so good that it inspired John Willia
Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt: Night - When I first met Tift Merritt, I thought she was the girl next door. I said as much: “You seem like such a... oh... little sister...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - The New York Philharmonic was giving a concert in Central Park, and because the child and I have taken to strolling in the park in the evening, I thou
The Opera Album - A man I know --- rich, powerful, you know his name --- fell in love with a woman of almost equal accomplishment. His passion was opera.
The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen - SDG. Bach put those initials at the end of his cantatas. They were shorthand for "Soli Deo Gloria" --- to God alone the glory.
The Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis - When things are broken, art tends to respond in kind. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Tous les Matins du Monde - It is 1660, and we are at the home of Sainte-Colombe, probably the greatest French musician and composer for strings of the 17th century.
Trumpet Concertos, Maurice Andre -     Trumpet Concertos Maurice Andre A great trumpet solo cuts sharper than a laser. Maybe it's something about a high note, exper
Vittorio - Vittorio     Forget the killer good looks, the corny song selection on his debut CD and “the next Bocelli” mar
Vivaldi “Gloria” and Handel “Dixit Dominus”, John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir - It’s been a hard sell, but I’m slowly convincing the child that classical composers were the rock stars of their time. That’s c
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos - “The bassoon is widely regarded as the buffoon of the wind family.” So says “The Musical Companion,” a reference book of uncom
Vivaldi: Sacred Music - It was my great fortune, in the years when I thought I had a future in music, to attend a school with a great orchestra and chorus.
William Kapell - William Kapell Videos Kapell plays Scarlatti William Kapell is the greatest American pianist you've never heard of. Born
Willie Ruff: Gregorian Chant, Plain Chant, and Spirituals Recorded in Saint Mark's Cathedral, Venice - It's just like Willie Ruff to take his French horn to Venice to record --- solo --- some of his favorite music: European classics and Southern sp