Jul 09 Blog Featured Album: To Brahms, with Love Cellist Amit Peled‘s new album “To Brahms, with Love” isn’t just another album of Brahms sonatas. The cello used in this recording belonged to Pablo Casals, the legendary Spanish cellist from the early 20th century. It just so happens that Casals played for Johannes Brahms himself on the very instrument featured in this new recording. By Daniel Gilliam Jul 09 Blog Featured Album: To Brahms, with Love By Daniel Gilliam
Aug 12 Blog Featured Album: Mozart Dedicated to Haydn Mozart acknowledged how difficult writing for string quartet could be when he dedicated a set to the father of the nascent genre, Joseph Haydn, saying “They are…the fruit of a long and laborious study.” Haydn had created the “string quartet” about 30 years before Mozart’s work in the genre, and others (including Ignaz Pleyel in […] By Daniel Gilliam Aug 12 Blog Featured Album: Mozart Dedicated to Haydn By Daniel Gilliam