Chamber Music & Recitals

Yehudi & Hephzibah Menuhin DVD

Dvorak: Clo Cto / Saint-Saens: Clo Cto DVD

Starring Janos Starker.

Richter Plays Schumann & Russians DVD

Sviatoslav Richter Plays Beethoven & Chopin DVD

Richter in rare German video, late in his career but in fine form in 1992, including with two friends in a Trio

An outstanding recital by Ukrainian-Israeli-American pianist, live in Havana, Cuba

Macbeth DVD

The first film in the series keys on Dvorak's prophecy and explores it's present-day pertinence. In New York City and Spillville, Iowa, Dvorak boldly chose to regard African Americans and Native Americans as representative Americans. That decision was...

Hollywood's supreme film composer was a casualty of the standard narrative- as he himself was bitterly aware. Not only were his movie scores high creative accomplishments; Bernard Herrmann was a formidable- and formidably unfashionable- concert composer...

Steeped in nostalgia, in his Danbury childhood and the New England Transcendentalists with whom he profoundly identified, in the American experience of race which he absorbed from his Abolitionist grandparents, Ives used the past with consummate empathy...

If George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess- the highest creative achievement in American classical music- embodies a glorious (and controversial) fulfillment of Dvorak's prophecy, there also exists a buried lineage of exceptional compositions by Black composers...