I’m giving an honorable mention to Antonio Carlos Jobim in my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical for his amazing and inventive song, The Girl From Ipanema. Jobim was born in Brazil
I’m giving an honorable mention to Antonio Carlos Jobim in my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical for his amazing and inventive song, The Girl From Ipanema. Jobim was born in Brazil
In the summer of 1788, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in one of the most inspiring compositional groove anyone can be in. He churned out his final three symphonies, No. 39,
I need to give Shostakovich an honorable mention for his Suite for Variety Orchestra. Hardly anyone today knows it by that name. This is one of those pieces that got
Coming in at #15 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is John Coltrane, the amazing saxophonist, with his rendition of My Favorite Things, composed originally by Richard Rodgers for My
I’m giving Schubert another honorable mention for his great Symphony No. 9 in C major. It is a grand symphony that deserves honors. It has beautiful melodies and technically proficient.
This is the first Dvorak piece on my list, and there are still two others. Yeah, I like his style of romanticism, a beautiful blend of Czech nationalism infused with
Kaija Saariaho comes in the list with an honorable mention for her recent opera, L’Amour de Loin. Premiered in 2000 in Salzburg, it also was only the second opera by
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in 1909 as part of the tour of the United States he had planned for the fall of that year. He had
Invoking the emergence of Death, hearkening back a few years to Beethoven’s Fifth, and inspiring metal rock and roll in the future, Schubert strikes a slashing D minor in fortissimo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart appears once again on my list of Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with his opera, Don Giovanni. This is where I have real beef with Peter Shaffer’s play