Archive for January, 2013
Wednesday 01/08/14 Live! At The Concertgebouw
11:00 PM MAHLER – Symphony No. 2
Tuesday 1/08/13 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO and Chorus in the Cherubini Requiem. Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Schoenberg: Kol Nidre (Alberto Mizrahi, narrator) Cherubini: Requiem in C Minor Verdi: Four Seasons from Les Vêpres siciliennes
Playlist: Jan/08/13
10:42 PM Bedrich Smetana — String Quartet No. 2 Key: dEnsemble: Lindsay String QuartetASV, 777 10:05 PM Ignace Jan Paderewski — Piano Concerto Key: aOpus: 17Conductor: Arthur FiedlerEnsemble: London Symphony OrchestraEarl Wild, pianoElan, 82266 9:56 PM Giuseppe Verdi — Aida: Grand March from Act II Conductor: Erich KunzelEnsemble: Cincinnati Pops OrchestraU. of Cincinnati Brass ChoirTelarc, […]
Sibelius Rocks (Part 1?)
Sibelius Rocks. I like him better than my argyle socks. At half past three, I heard him played on WBJC. Sibelius Rules. But years ago he wasn’t taught in schools. A haughty bunch Of critics thought that he was out to lunch. Sibelius Reigns. His music conjures lands of fiords and […]
Monday 1/07/13 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Soloist: Gil Shaham, violin Stucky: Symphony (New York premiere, co-commission with Los Angeles Philharmonic Barber: Violin Concerto, Op 14 Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
1-7-13 Word on Wine Review…GREECE!!!!!!!!!
This week Mary and I review two wines from Greece, Something we never have done before. 1)2011 Adoli Ghis (Meaning Unruly Earth!) from Antonopoulos Vineyards. $15. This was a blend of three white Greek varietals and this resulted in a very nice long and lean wine. If all the Greek wine you have ever […]
Playlist: Jan/07/13
10:53 PM Friedrich Kuhlau — Sonatina No.3 Key: COpus: 55Jeno Jando, pianoNaxos, 570710 10:42 PM Antonio Vivaldi — Concerto Key: DConductor: Reinhardt GoebelEnsemble: Musica Antiqua KolnWilbert Hazelzet, fluteDG/Archiv, 471729 10:29 PM Nicolo Paganini — Centone di Sonate No.14 Key: GMoshe Hammer, violinNorbert Kraft, guitarNaxos, 8553143 10:21 PM Francois-Adrien Boieldieu — La Dame Blanche Overture Conductor: […]
Our treasures
I have become an MFA hermit, added to which as soon as the fall semester was over I got sick (you may have noticed my inadvertent James Morris impersonations on the air!) but I finally got to the BMA on this lovely sunny Sunday to see the new contemporary wing. Full disclosure: I am not […]
01/12/13 – Il Trovatore – 1PM
Metropolitan Opera Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano Sung in Italian Approximate running time: 2 hrs. 46 min., including 1 intermission Il Trovatore returns to the Met in a revival the New York Times calls “rousing, satisfying, truly fun.” David McVicar’s vivid production keeps the action moving in Verdi’s intense melodrama, which includes some of the composer’s most […]
Playlist: Jan/06/13
8:34 PM Modest Moussorgsky — Boris Godunov: Symphonic Synthesis Conductor: Jose SerebrierEnsemble: Bournemouth Symphony OrchestraNaxos, 8557645 8:00 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 1 Key: COpus: 15Conductor: Vladimir GolschmannEnsemble: Columbia Symphony OrchestraGlenn Gould, pianoCBS/Sony, 52632 6:35 PM Karol Szymanowski — Symphony No. 4, “Symphonie Concertante Opus: 60Conductor: Alfred WallensteinEnsemble: Los Angeles PhilharmonicArtur Rubinstein, […]
