Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, In memory of Arthur “Art” Tollefson, who died on Friday, July 24, 2020, our seventh offerings are recordings of the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in G Minor from a concert by the BSO in 2012 and the Beethoven Sonata in C Minor for Piano & Violin: Scherzo & Finale from 2014. Art was the piano soloist in the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto. Art played the piano with Fred Devyatkin in the Beethoven Sonata. The recordings are on YouTube: BSO playing Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in G Minor and Beethoven Sonata in C Minor for Piano &...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Our fifth offering is a recording of the First Movement of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 from a concert by the BSO in October 2017 at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church. The piano soloist is Reed Tetzloff. The recording is on YouTube BSO playing Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4, 1st Movement. See Maestro Fred Devyatkin’s Commentary on YouTube. Reed was brought to perform with BSO by the Prodigy Project, which was established to provide young classical-musician superstars with the opportunity to perform for their first time professionally with a Symphony Orchestra. To...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Our fourth offering is a recording of the First Movement of the Niccolo Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major from a concert by the BSO in February 2016 at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church. The soloist is Hungarian-born violinist Tamás Kocsis. The recording is on YouTube BSO playing Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major: 1st Movement. See Maestro Fred Devyatkin’s Commentary on YouTube. Violinist Tamás Kocsis was born in Budapest, Hungary, and began playing the violin at the age of 5. Tamás is the Leader of the