Archive for October, 2012
10-27-12 Face The Music Listings!
Go Baltimore Symphony and Marin Alsop on your really nice Mahler disc! Ditto to Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique with the Lyons Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin both on Naxos and both fabulous! We didn’t care for the Prokofiev…we mostly liked the Shostakovich! Our Panel: Kati Harrison from WBJC, Charles Ellis from the PG Philharmonic and Dave Donovan […]
11/03/12 – Fidelio – 1:00pm
Houston Grand Opera Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner Sung in German Approximate running time: 2 hours, 6 minutes including one intermission Leonore is willing to do whatever it takes to free her husband, Florestan, an innocent political prisoner. Disguised as a boy, Fidelio, she bravely prevents Florestan’s assassination by a corrupt governor. Beethoven’s only […]
Playlist: Oct/27/12
8:26 PM Hector Berlioz — Les Nuits d’Ete (Summer Nights) Opus: 7Conductor: Robert ShawEnsemble: Atlanta Symphony OrchestraElly Ameling, sopranoTelarc, 80084 8:13 PM Sergei Taneyev — Duet for soprano and tenor after the Conductor: Peter TiborisEnsemble: Moscow Radio/TV Symphony Orch.And various soloistsBridge, 9034 8:05 PM Sir Arthur Sullivan — Iolanthe: Overture Conductor: Alexander FarisEnsemble: Scottish Chamber […]
Playlist: Oct/26/12
11:51 PM Charles Ives — String Quartet No. 2 Ensemble: Emerson String QuartetDG/Archiv, 435864 11:18 PM Jean Sibelius — Violin Concerto Key: dOpus: 47Conductor: Esa-Pekka SalonenEnsemble: Los Angeles PhilharmonicJoshua Bell, violinCBS/Sony, 65949 10:54 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 35 Key: DConductor: Nikolaus HarnoncourtEnsemble: Royal Concertgebouw OrchestraNederland, 6004 10:31 PM John Williams — Close […]
Top 5 – Halloween Movies (Part 1)
Since Halloween is near, I thought I would share with you my top five favorite horror movies. We certainly have come a long way since I was a child in terms of what is permissable for public viewing. The other day I saw the rotting corpse of a zombie from The Walking Dead on the front […]
Frankenweenie – review!
“This is what Tim Burton is GOOD at!” When I left the theater, I felt like Burton had returned to his roots. I was a fan of Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow and Beetlejuice… but in recent years I was underwhelmed with the Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd, and outright repelled by Charlie and the […]
Thursday 10/25/12 The Cleveland Orchestra
11:00 PM Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb, Op. 83 SHEPHERD: Wanderlust SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 6 in b, Op. 54
Playlist: Oct/25/12
10:58 PM John Dowland — The Schoemaker’s Wife Paul O’Dette,luteAstree, 7715 10:45 PM Ron Nelson — Courtly Airs and Dances Conductor: Jerry JunkinEnsemble: Dallas Wind SymphonyReference, 76 10:27 PM Ralph Vaughan Williams — Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 Key: eConductor: Paul DanielEnsemble: Bournemouth Symphony OrchestraNaxos, 8557276 10:04 PM Felix Mendelssohn — Four Movements for String Quartet […]
Wednesday 10/24/12 Live! At The Concertgebouw
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Gerd Albrecht SOLOIST: Ralph van Raat, piano ORCHESTRA: Netherlands Symphony Orchestra Janacek: Taras Bulba Ulmann: Piano Concerto Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
