Archive for September, 2012
Wednesday 09/26/12 Live! At The Concertgebouw
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Herbert Blomstedt SOLOIST: Emily Beynon, flute ORCHESTRA: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Sibelius: Tapiola, Op. 112 Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Op. 119 Dvorák: Symphony No. 7, Op. 70 Encore: Nielsen: Aladdin Suite Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel
Playlist: Sep/26/12
10:17 PM Nikolai Medtner — Piano Concerto No. 3 Key: eOpus: 60Conductor: Vladimir ZivaEnsemble: Moscow Symphony OrchestraKonstantin Scherbakov,pianoNaxos, 553359 10:06 PM Pablo Sarasate — Zigeunerweisen Opus: 20Conductor: Rolf ReinhardtEnsemble: S.W. German Radio Symph. Orch.Aaron Rosand, violinVox/MMG, 8160 9:18 PM Aram Khachaturian — Gayaneh: Ballet Suite Conductor: Anatole FistoulariEnsemble: London Symphony OrchestraEverest, 9020 9:09 PM Gioacchino […]
Tuesday 09/25/12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine (Ludovic Morlot, conductor; Daniel Schlosberg, piano; Cynthia Millar, ondes martenot; women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, chorus director) Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Ludovic Morlot, conductor; Stewart Goodyear, piano) Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole (Ludovic Morlot, conductor) Golijov: Mariel (Kenneth Olson, cello; Miguel […]
Playlist: Sep/25/12
10:50 PM Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Orchestral Symphony No. 2 Key: E-Flat Conductor: Hartmut HaenchenEnsemble: CPE Bach Chamber OrchestraCapriccio, 10175 10:43 PM Frederic Chopin — Waltz No. 2 Key: A-Flat Opus: 34Alexander Brailowsky, pianoRCA/BMG, 68164 10:25 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Concerto for 2 violins Key: dConductor: Vladimir SpivakovEnsemble: Moscow VirtuosiVladimir Spivakov, violinArkady Futer, […]
Monday 09/24/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Soloist: Nicholas Phan, tenor Brooklyn Youth Chorus Falla: Excerpts from Atlantida Orff: Carmina Burana Encore: Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)
Playlist: Sep/24/12
10:54 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Chorale Prelude: O Mensch, bewein dein’ Conductor: Leonard SlatkinEnsemble: BBC Philharmonic OrchestraChandos, 9835 10:34 PM Carl Czerny — Andante e Polacca for Horn and Piano Hermann Baumann, hornLeonard Hokanson, pianoPhilips, 416816 10:13 PM Dmitri Shostakovich — Moscow-Cheryomushki Opus: 105Conductor: Riccardo ChaillyEnsemble: The Philadelphia OrchestraLondon, 452597 10:08 PM Giuseppe Verdi […]
Playlist: Sep/23/12
8:31 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 40 Key: gConductor: Gerard SchwarzEnsemble: Los Angeles Chamber OrchestraDelos, 3012 8:11 PM Johannes Brahms — Variations on a Theme by Paganini Key: aOpus: 35Yuja Wang, pianoDG/Archiv, 14108 8:00 PM Michael Torke — Jasper Conductor: Marin AlsopEnsemble: Royal Scottish National OrchesNaxos, 8559167 6:48 PM Cesar Franck — Piece […]
09/29/12 – Xerxes – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera Xerxes by George Frideric Handel Anonymous revision of Silvio Stampiglia’s libretto ‘Il Xerse,’ based on Nicolo Minato’s ‘Il Xerse’ Sung in Italian Approximate running time: 3 hours, 40 minutes including two intermissions Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest Handel productions of our time, this visually stunning Olivier Award–winning staging by famed […]
Playlist: Sep/22/12
7:56 PM Ernest Bloch — Sacred Service Conductor: Leonard BernsteinEnsemble: New York PhilharmonicRobert Merrill, baritoneand ChorusCBS/Sony, 47533 7:54 PM Joseph Achron — Hebrew Melody Opus: 33Mischa Elman, violinJoseph Seiger, pianoVanguard, 8030 7:47 PM Ernest Bloch — Nigun (Improvisation) Mischa Elman, violinJoseph Seiger, pianoVanguard, 8030 7:21 PM Dmitri Shostakovich — From Jewish Folk Poetry Opus: 79Conductor: […]
Unspoiled by fame
This CD cover, with Gil Shaham on the left, exactly conjures up the eagerness and fervent communication that are so much a part of his gorgeous music making, and which I now know are just as vivid in person. Every interview is special in its own way but I have to say that, of […]
