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Jules Massenet – Meditation from Thais
Jules Massenet’s Thais Meditation performed by Maxim Vengerov and M-Tel Radio Symphony Orchestra….
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Dmitri Shostakovich
…skills under the tutelage of eminent personalities such as Alexander Glazunov, Maximilian Steinberg, and Nikolay Sokolov. His remarkable progress is underscored by the fact that he composed his Symphony No….
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Liebesfreud by Fritz Kreisler
Maxim Vengerov performs Kreisler’s Liebesfreud….
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America’s First Orchestra
…but it was a successful one. The new orchestra kept giving concerts, and people kept coming. Over the decades, musicians and conductors came and went. The self-managing cooperative gave way…
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Richard Strauss
…a symphony written at age 16, demonstrated precocious talent. Early Career and Influences Strauss’s professional career began when he was appointed assistant conductor to Hans von Bülow at the Meiningen…
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Carl Maria von Weber
Born in the heart of Germany, in a family echoing with musical expression, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber emerged as a virtuoso pianist, a proficient conductor, a discerning critic,…
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
…Teaching Rimsky-Korsakov’s career was marked by a prolific output of compositions, a successful stint as a conductor, and a lasting influence as a teacher. In 1873, he left active naval…
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Mily Balakirev
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev was a prominent Russian composer, conductor, and pianist who played a crucial role in the development of Russian classical music during the 19th century. Early Life Born…
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Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in D Major
Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. He is known as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. One of his works is the Divertimento in…
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Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn, born as Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, was a German composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher during the Romantic period. Early Life Born in Hamburg, Germany, on February 3, 1809,…
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Samuel Barber
…of successes. His first major orchestral work, Overture to the School for Scandal, premiered in 1933 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of conductor Alexander Smallens. The piece, a…
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor who bridged the gap between 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. His symphonies and orchestral songs, renowned…
