Today, more than 200 years after his passing, the music of Mozart still speaks to us, moves us, and leaves us breathless.   Valentina Peleggi conducts Mozart’s magnificent Symphony No. 36, the “Linz.”   Plus, two exhilarating musical declarations: from our own time: Damien Geter’s “I Said What I Said”.   And the Chamber Symphony of Shostakovich, arranged […]

Vienna – 1800.  A struggling young composer completes a symphony.  The first of nine that will change the course of music.  And electrify audiences for two centuries. Chia-Husan Lin conducts Beethoven’s First Symphony, Haydn’s last Symphony, and works by two masters of our time – Vivian Fung and James Lee III.  

Valentina Peleggi leads the sumptuous strings of the Richmond Symphony in three poetic works by Marion Bauer, Steven Snowden, and Christopher Theofanidis.   Plus, the gripping Divertimento of Bartók, composed in 1939 and anticipating the world’s immediate future.