Lloyd Schwartz

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a reissue of an album of Mozart and Beethoven Duos and Sonatas.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz tells us about a new release of some early performances by New York Philharmonic Conductor Sir John Barbirolli.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new opera, "The Ghosts of Versailles ("vahr-SIGH") by composer John Corigliano ("core ee ahn no"). It premiered two weeks ago at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the first new opera to premiere at the Met in 25 years.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new and first recording of conductor Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new recording of Nigel Kennedy performing the Brahms Violin Concerto. (It's on the Angel/E.M.I. label).

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new recording of music by Czech composers Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann. Klein and Ullmann were both imprisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War 2, and later put to death at Auschwitz. This is the first of 6 planed recordings of music the pair wrote while under Nazi imprisonment.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz is also a poet, and today he reads one of his poems about leaves changing color.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz is also an accomplished poet. The U.S. Information Agency recently sent Lloyd to Brazil for a lecture tour. He tells us he found a country with a huge love of poetry.

Classical music fans around the world are commemorating the bicentennial of Mozart's death. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz is observing a happier anniversary, the 100th anniversary of Prokofiev's birth. He reviews a new compact disc (on the Pearl label) of Prokofiev playing his own works.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews "The Death of Klinghoffer," the new opera from composer John Adams. It recently had its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.