Archive for November 25th, 2012
Mass for troubled times
In his later years Franz Joseph Haydn personally enjoying great success and fame, but the world around him was in trouble. In 1798 Haydn wrote Missa in Angustiis (“Mass for troubled times”) which may have been premiered the day Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon in the Battle of the Nile. This late mass would gradually be called […]
Playlist: Nov/25/12
8:06 PM Richard Strauss — An Alpine Symphony Opus: 64Conductor: Herbert BlomstedtEnsemble: San Francisco SymphonyLondon, 421815 8:00 PM Johann Heinrich Schmelzer — Sonata a 5 per camera al giorno delle Conductor: Jeanne LamonEnsemble: TafelmusikCBS/Sony, 53963 6:30 PM Anton Garcia Abril — Piano Concerto Conductor: Enrique Garcia AsensioEnsemble: Orquesta Sinfonica De MadridGuillermo Gonzalez,pianoM Polo/HK, 8223849 6:00 […]