Archive for April, 2013
Tuesday 4/30/13 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Salonen conducts Sibelius Sibelius: Pohjola’s Daughter Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105 Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto (Yo-Yo Ma, cello) Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major: I and III (Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Ton Koopman, conductor)
Playlist: Apr/30/13
10:38 PM Emile Waldteufel — Les Patineurs Opus: 183Conductor: Arthur FiedlerEnsemble: Boston Pops OrchestraRCA/BMG, 63304 10:22 PM Dmitri Kabalevsky — Violin Concerto Key: COpus: 48Conductor: Mikhail PletnevEnsemble: Russian National OrchestraGil Shaham, violinDG/Archiv, 457064 9:53 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Serenade for Strings Key: COpus: 48Conductor: Janos RollaEnsemble: Liszt Ferenc Chm Orch,BudapestHarm Mundi, 903005 9:35 PM […]
Monday 4/29/13 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: David Robertson Soloist: Pierre Laurent-Aimard, piano Messiaen: “The Forgotten Offerings” Tristan Murail: Piano Concerti, “The Disenchantment of the World” Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in f-minor
4-29-13 Word On Wine Super Tuscan & 19 Crimes!
This week we review 2 wines one old world one new. 1)2010 Rocca di Montemassi (producer) Sassabruna (name) Montereggio (area). $23. Super Tuscan! What is Super Tuscan…Listen and find out! This was a pleasure…80% Sangiovese, 10% Merlot, 10% Syrah. We enjoyed! 2)2012 19 Crimes. Australia. Syrah and whatever else they blend it with! $13. If […]
Playlist: Apr/29/13
10:28 PM Alexandre Luigini — Ballet Egyptien: Suite No.1 Opus: 12Conductor: Anatole FistoulariEnsemble: Royal Philharmonic OrchestraAngel/EMI, 68127 10:20 PM Paul Lincke — Lysistrata: Idyll of the glow-worms Conductor: Ronald CorpEnsemble: New London OrchestraHyperion, 66998 10:19 PM Felix Mendelssohn — Assai Tranquillo: for cello and piano Steven Isserlis, celloMelvyn Tan, pianoRCA/BMG, 62553 9:29 PM Richard Strauss […]
04/28/13 – Toccata Rundown
6:00 PM 7739 Sergei Prokofiev Sarcasms Op 17 MCA 10155 SOLO Oleg Volkov,piano 12:11 C 1 5-9 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:16 PM 47239 Herbert Sumsion Intermezzo Naxos 550773 SOLO Donald Hunt, organ 5:59 C 1 17-17 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:21 PM 47240 Herbert Sumsion Ceremonial March Naxos 550773 SOLO Donald Hunt, organ 3:47 C 1 18-18 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:28 PM […]
Julius Caesar re-invented
Here’s an interesting factoid: our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, goes to the opera. As I was walking out of the auditorium at the Metropolitan Opera at the end of Handel’s Giulio Cesare yesterday afternoon, there she suddenly was! We had noticed some security personnel during the second interval – their spiral earpieces and […]
Playlist: Apr/28/13
8:23 PM Franz Schubert — Symphony No. 4 Key: cConductor: Carlo Maria GiuliniEnsemble: Bavarian Radio SymphonyCBS/Sony, 66833 8:05 PM Astor Piazzolla — Tango Suite Manuel Barrueco, guitarFranco Platino, guitarTonar, 90801 8:00 PM Henry Purcell — Symphony Conductor: William BoughtonEnsemble: English String OrchestraJohn Wallace, trumpetNimbus, 7067 6:28 PM Henry Holden Huss — Piano Concerto Key: BOpus: […]
5/04/13 – Dialogues des Carmelites – 1:00PM
Metropolitan Opera Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc Libretto by Francis Poulenc, after Georges Bernanos Sung in French Approximate running time: 3 hrs. 2 min., 1 intermission. In one of the Met’s greatest productions, Poulenc’s masterpiece makes a rare return to the repertory with a fine cast led by Patricia Racette, Felicity Palmer, and Isabel Leonard. Louis Langrée conducts […]
Playlist: Apr/27/13
8:00 PM Carl Orff — Carmina Burana Conductor: Eugen JochumEnsemble: Orchester der Deutschen OperChor der Deutschen Oper BerlinGundula Janowitz, sopranoGerhard Stolze,tenorDietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar.DG/Archiv, 447437 6:57 PM Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 4 Key: GConductor: James LevineEnsemble: Chicago Symphony OrchestraJudith Blegen, sopranoRCA/BMG, 895 6:26 PM Jean Sibelius — Violin Concerto Key: dOpus: 47Conductor: Sir Thomas BeechamEnsemble: […]