Archive for January, 2013
01-12-13 Face The Music Listings!
This week…our first new show of the year… we had some nice winners…Manuel Barrueco’s new Bach Album…the new Dvorak Symphony # 3 and the Rozsa were all winners…We were less enthusiastic about the Beethoven with Lars Vogt. Our panel was made up of John Bowen from Emanuel Episcopal, Jed Gaylin of the Hopkins and Bay […]
01/19/13 – Maria Stuarda – 1pm
Metropolitan Opera Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari Sung in Italian Approximate running time: 2 hrs. 46 min., including 1 intermission Joyce DiDonato’s performance in the title role of Mary, Queen of Scots, “will be pointed to as a model of singing,” full of “plush richness and aching beauty,” in David McVicar’s Met premiere […]
ZERO DARK THIRTY, DJANGO UNCHAINED, PROMISED LAND, NOT FADE AWAY
ZERO DARK THIRTY gathers the facts from 9/11 to the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. Kathryn Bigelow has worked with primary material to create a time-line ellipsis from the point of the terrorism, to U.S. troop anger, to a standstill and eventual information from a luckily found source leading to bin Laden. The […]
Playlist: Jan/12/13
8:13 PM Gerald Finzi — Intimations of Immortality Opus: 29Conductor: Matthew BestEnsemble: Corydon Orchestraand ChorusJohn Mark Ainsley, tenorHyperion, 66876 8:11 PM Francis Poulenc — Exultate Deo (1941) Conductor: John RutterEnsemble: City of London SinfoniaCambridge SingersCollegium, 108 8:04 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — The Consecration of the House: Chorus Conductor: Stanislaw SkrowaczewskiEnsemble: Minnesota OrchestraPhyllis Bryn-Julson, sopranoBach […]
Playlist: Jan/11/13
11:38 PM Bela Bartok — The Miraculous Mandarin Opus: 19Conductor: Valery GergievEnsemble: Rotterdam Philharmonic OrchestNederland, 2005 11:13 PM Manuel de Falla — El Amor Brujo Conductor: Lorin MaazelEnsemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orch.Grace Bumbry, mezzo-sopranoDG/Archiv, 447414 10:43 PM Robert Schumann — Piano Quintet Key: E-Flat Opus: 44Ensemble: Artis QuartetStefan Vladar, pianoCBS/Sony, 58954 10:39 PM Henry Purcell […]
Thursday 1/10/13 The Cleveland Orchestra
11:00 PM Lionel Bringuier, conductor Alisa Weilerstein, cello KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No. 1 in Eb, Op. 107 ROUSSEL: The Spider’s Feast STRAVINSKY: The Firebird (1919 revision) Encore: Suppe: Light Cavalry Overture
Playlist: Jan/10/13
10:46 PM Leopold Hofmann — Symphony Key: FConductor: Nicholas WardEnsemble: Northern Chamber OrchestraNaxos, 554761 10:20 PM Georg Philipp Telemann — Overture and Suite Key: B-Flat Conductor: Reinhardt GoebelEnsemble: Musica Antiqua KolnDG/Archiv, 429774 10:09 PM Felix Mendelssohn — Overture for Wind Instruments Opus: 24Conductor: Sir Neville MarrinerEnsemble: Academy of St Martin in FieldsCapriccio, 10708 9:38 PM […]
Wednesday 1/09/13 Live! At The Concertgebouw
11:00 PM Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Philippe Herreweghe Alexander Lonquich, piano SCHUMANN: Overture Manfred BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 ‘ Spring’ Encore: Beethoven: Violin Sonate no.5 in F major ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN: Overture Scenes from Goethes Faust
Playlist: Jan/09/13
10:46 PM David Diamond — Rounds for String Orchestra Conductor: Gerard SchwarzEnsemble: Los Angeles Chamber OrchestraNonesuch, 79002 10:16 PM Johannes Brahms — Cello Sonata No. 2 Key: FOpus: 99Lynn Harrell, celloStephen Kovacevich, pianoAngel/EMI, 56440 10:08 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Zur Namensfeier Overture Key: COpus: 115Conductor: Kurt MasurEnsemble: Gewandhausorchester LeipzigPhilips, 426630 9:38 PM Cornelis Dopper […]
