#morninglistening to #Debussy on @WarnerClassicsUS / @WarnerClassics’ complete #ClaudeDebussy Edition
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/5MRfkj0
☆♡☆
Starting with piano works, naturally, such as: #Images (oubliées) & #SuiteBergamesque et al. w/#AldoCiccolini
#classicalcdcollection #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #pianomusic #solokeyboard #CompleteDebussy #WarnerClassics #DebussyEdition
Missing good old #Gieseking, but I guess the sound on that is too dated.
#morninglistening to #BélaBartók w/@chicagosymphony under #PierreBoulez on @DGclassics:
Amazon:http://a-fwd.to/2vyOm88
Bluebeard’s Castle
with a fab cast of #JessyeNorman & #LászlóPolgár.
#opera #surprisedbybeauty #Bartok #classicalmusic #BelaBartok #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #vocalmusic #20thCenturyMusic #20thcenturyclassical
#morninglistening to #Britten & #Hindemith w/#ArabellaSteinbacher, w/@rsb_orchester & #VladimirJurowski
on @pentatonemusic
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/4LUEXaq
#violinconcertos - @SurprisedBeauty music beautifully – too much so? – played.
#classicalcdcollection #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #violinconcerto #20thCenturyMusic #20thcenturyclassical #BenjaminBritten #PaulHindemith
#morninglistening to #Debussy w/@SeongJinCho on @dgclassics
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/6JLoIPy
in a truly terrific recital.
#Images #ChildrensCorner #SuiteBergamesque #LIsleJoyeuse
#classicalcdcollection #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #pianomusic #solokeyboard #SeongJinCho
Veteran conductor Marin Alsop has been named the new music director of the Austrian Broadcasting Company’s Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna (ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, or Vienna RSO; also referred to as the ORF Symphony Orchestra) starting with the 2019/20 season[1]. The Vienna RSO is one of four professional symphony orchestras in the greater Vienna region and vies with the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra for that fourth spot – with the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony locked in first and second place, respectively.
A Difficult Search
The orchestra had been looking for a new candidate for a good while and the search for a successor to Cornelius Meister, who is leaving after this season, cannot have been easy. (Hence the interim year without a chief conductor.) The job isn’t so prestigious that an established conductor with a humming international career is prone to take it. But it also takes a good deal for a conductor to hold his own in Vienna; to have a pronounced enough profile that gets noticed despite the orchestral big-boys vying for medial attention...
...
A Blue Fingerprint
What does this appointment mean for Women-conductors: Not that much, probably; not nearly as much as it does for journalists who love writing about that issue. Still, there is the symbolic value that an orchestra in Vienna, a town with, as the Guardian put it, a notoriously “fusty attitude towards women” in the music world, is now led by a woman. But Maestra Alsop – and in this may lie the most positive aspect for women-conductors if isn’t ruined by vapid journalistic coverage that reduces it solely to this issue – wasn’t appointed because she is a woman. (Which is presumably the only way a woman conductor would want to be appointed.) Her gender had nothing to do with it, except for the afterthought that it might serve as a nice angle to sell the story to editors who would not otherwise report about the Vienna RSO.
What will have had something to do with it, however, was Marin Alsop’s relation with the largest classical record label and all-around industry behemoth – Naxos Records. Marin Alsop has been with Naxos for many years; she was probably the first truly renowned conductor to record exclusively for Naxos – and also the first conductor whose career was notably helped by the Naxos exposure. (Previously, artists may have thought it the reputational touch-of-death to appear for the cheapo-Naxos label.) Their relation was symbiotic, successful, and prolific – and remains so.
Naxos is certainly keen on an orchestral presence with a quality orchestra in the continental European market – especially the hometown of classical music (if you will), Vienna...
#morninglistening to - I don’t know what. It’s not classical, but it kicks rearend! #ElectroAcoustic goodness from @RogerDoyle1 et al. on @Heresy_Records
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/1uhhBL2
“A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland”
#electroacousticmusic #cdcollection #ireland #RogerDoyle #
#morninglistening to #Mahler on #BrattleMedia w/@BosPhi’s @BosPhilYouth under @BenjaminZander
in his third recording of #Symphony No.6
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #GustavMahler #orchestralmusic #symphonies #ScherzoAndante!
#morninglistening to #Mahler on #BISrecords w/@mn_orchestra & @OsmoVanska
in #Symphony No.5
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #GustavMahler #orchestralmusic #symphonies
incl. an enormously slow, even glacial #Adagiettio - almost rivaling Haitink/Berlin… but not quite.
#morninglistening to @BrightSheng1 on @NaxosRecords w/@ShanghaiQuartet & #PeterSerkin
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/5MQhnMy
Includes “Songs for Piano” 1 & 2, #StringQuartet No.5 and the #violinsonata of the misleadingly titled CD’ name: A night at the Chinese Opera.
Music influenced by multiple worlds yet never stooping to the stereotypes of “cross-over” or “East-meets-West” hokum. It just is. And it’s good. #classicalmusic #Transnationalmusic
#naxosrecords #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #ChamberMusic #pianosonatas #stringquartet #ChineseMusic ? #BrightSheng
#morninglistening to #Langgaard et al. w/#DanishPianoTrio on @DacapoRecords
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/2KbZcp3
#PianoTrios, continuing my enduring love for #RuedLanggaard but also #NielsGade & P.E. #LangeMüller
@SurprisedBeauty Music! ♡☆♡ #chambermusic #classicalmusic #surprisedbybeauty #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #orchestralmusic #danishmusic #repertoireexplorer #PianoTrio
#morninglistening to #Bruckner on @hyperionrecords w/#CorydonSingers & #MatthewBest
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/1L5NcKqq1
Terrific performance of the F-minor #Mass and #Psalm 150 on #HyperionRecords
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #choralmusic #vocalmusic #OrchestralMusic #Psalm150 #secularmusic #Corydon’s claim to fame.
#morninglistening to #Sibelius (kanssa sammakko) on #BIS w/#FolkeGräsbeck
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/HqrbrXh
on Sibelius’ own @steinwayandsons piano.
Surprisingly (?) wonderful disc!
@surprisedBeauty music
#classicalmusic #pianomusic #transcriptions #solokeyboard #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #contemporarymusic #20thCenturyMusic #finnishmusic #OrchestralMusic #JeanSibelius #Frog (med en groda/frosk)
#morninglistening to #Vasks’ #LaudateDominum et al. w/@radiokoris & @sinfoniettaRiga under #SigvardsKlava:
♡♡♡ “embarrassingly beautiful”
A surefire @surprisedbeauty inclusion!
#PeterisVasks #vocalmusic #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #contemporarymusic #21stCenturyMusic #PēterisVasks #choralmusic #symphonies #christianmusic #religiousmusic
#morninglistening to #Wagenseil #symphonies w/@lorfeo_baroque in knock-out performances! on #cpo
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/6nMML1i
Wagenseil: The official composer of @AAA_national / @AAAauto!
#classicalmusic #classicism #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #orchestralmusic #Symphony #lorfeobarockorchester #michiGaigg #noFilter
#morninglistening to #vonEinem’s “#Bruckner Dialog” w/@ViennaSymphony under #LovroVonMatacic on #Orfeo
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/5nimFlB
(just before VSO played a smashing B-8 @Musikverein tonight)
also in #Haydn #103 & #Schubert 8th (7th) Symphony (#unfinished)
(♡♡♡) #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #WienerKlassik #20thCenturyMusic #repertoireexplorer #lovrovonmatačić #FranzSchubert #JosephHaydn #GottfriedvonEinem
#morninglistening to #Handel’s #IsraelinEgypt w/@LFChorus & @ECOrchestra under #CharlesMackerras on @dgclassics:
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/4EtnoMS
Not HIP, just full of love. ♡
The oratorio that gave a whole new meaning to parody-composition: 10% original content, 90% awesome.
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #englishclassicalmusic #baroquemusic
#choralmusic #englishchamberorchestra #LeedsFestival Chorus #Mackerras #LeedsFestivalChorus #GeorgFredericHandel
For many years the Berliner Philharmoniker and the public have again and again experienced fascinating concerts with and thanks to you. Dear Mariss Jansons, it is a great pleasure for us all to have you with us this week. It is our heartfelt wish to thank you by conferring honorary membership in our orchestra on you. Thank you for many years of unique musical cooperation, for unforgettable concerts – in short, for your wonderful friendship.
#morninglistening to #Bach #cellosuites on @eudorarecords w/@soundceku on the #guitar
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/2MhMv0h
Works terrifically well.
#PetritCeku started recording on @NaxosRecords ’ Laureate Guitar series.
Much preferred to transcriptions for harp or marimba, certainly
#transcriptions
#classicalmusic #SACD #classicalmusiccollection #chambermusic #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #PetritÇeku
#guitarmusic now what was music for #solocello
#morninglistening to #VaughanWilliams & #Bernstein w/& on @ChoirOfKingsCam
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/6gZADH0
@RVWSociety / @RVWtweets / @LennyBernstein
Dona nobis pacem & #ChichesterPsalms - one of Lennies better works. @surprisedbeauty music!
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #choralmusic #20thCenturyMusic #britishmusic #americanclassicalmusic #surprisedbybeauty
#morninglistening to #ClaudeBaker on @NaxosRecords w/@Indy_Symphony & #marcandrehamelin in “From Noon to Starry Night”
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/BJL4iIg + “Aus Schwanengesang”
Terrific stuff; an upcoming #CDoftheWeek on #Forbes.com
#classicalmusic #naxosrecords #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #pianoconcerto #repertoireexplorer #21stCenturyMusic #contemporarymusic #OrchestralMusic #americanclassicalmusic #surprisedbybeauty music!
#morninglistening to #Dvorak on @NaxosRecords w/@TempestTrio
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/5S9e0D3
#classicalmusic #naxosrecords #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #ChamberMusic #PianoTrio #Dvořák / #antonindvorak / #antoníndvořák #pianotrios #czechmusic
#morninglistening to #Busoni-#Bach transcriptions on @capricciorec w/#PeterRösel
(also on @berlinclassics)
#classicalmusic #EarlyMusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #baroquemusic #solokeyboard #pianomusic #transcription #transcriptions of works for solo violin and other instruments by #ferrucioBusoni. The playing, alas, is hard and unyielding and not very pleasant listening to my ears. Then again, the Amazon reviews all rave about his playing…
#morninglistening to #Sibelius on #BIS w/@LahtiSymphony & @OsmoVanska
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/3tcclmv
#Snöfrid & other delightful #choralmusic
and #vocalmusic w/orchestra.
@surprisedBeauty music
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #contemporarymusic #20thCenturyMusic #finnishmusic #OrchestralMusic #JeanSibelius
#morninglistening to superb playing of #SergioTiempo on a strangely unprofessional disc* on #AvantiClassic:
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/27UUzlb
“Legacy”
#Beethoven - #Chopin - #Prokofiev - #Brahms - #VillaLobos - #Piazzolla
#SACD #classicalcdcollection
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #solokeyboard
#20thCenturyMusic #surprisedbybeauty
*a veritable family album of snap shots inside, looks like a self-made mixtape one might give to relatives. Artistic Ego getting the better of esthetic restraint. Or a bit as if he had recently died. Strange. But an amazing recital!
#morninglistening
to #HansZender w/@koelnmusik/#WDRSinfonieorchester on #Wergo:
Dialog mit #Haydn, issei no kyO & nanzen no kyO - canto VII
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #21stcenturyclassical #20thcenturyclassical #contemporaryclassical
#morninglistening to #FrancoisCouperin’s #Apotheosis on @harmoniamundi / @piasclassicsusa
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/5D5K7S2
w/@lesartsflo’s #WilliamChristie & @talenslyriques’ #ChristopheRousset
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #harpsichord #historicalinstruments #historicallyinformedperformance #HIP #frenchmusic
#morninglistening to #Beethoven w/@Singverein in arguably @Vienna_Phil’s best cycle of the 9 #symphonies under Hans #SchmidtIsserstedt
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/25ifLDC
on @deccaclassics Korea; a re-issue in the rest of the world would be great!
#classicalmusic
#classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #Symphony #Ludwigvan #ludwigvanbeethoven #wienerphilharmoniker #viennaphilharmonic
With gratitude to @classic22!
#morninglistening to #Britten’s #PaulBunyan w/@vocalessencemn (1) on @warnerClassics (2):
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/52B3La1
1: formerly #PlymouthMusicSeries
2: formerly #VirginClassics
@surprisedbeauty composer #BenjaminBritten
#classicalmusic #opera #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #20thCenturyMusic #surprisedbybeauty
#morninglistening to #Brahms #cellisonatas on @warnerclassicsus @warnerclassics w/@atharaud & @QueyrasJG
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/2A3AXFa
On paper certainly the most tantalizing proposition in these works since Serkin/Rostropovich who managed one of their best senority-efforts in these works.
#classicalmusic #AlexandreTharaud #classicalmusiccollection #chambermusic #cellosonata
#JohannesBrahms #JeanGuihenQueyras #germanromanticism
#morninglistening to #Purcell’s #DidoAndAeneas w/@permopera on @Alpha_Classics
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/4oStLQI
w/#TeodorCurrentzis
Terrific #reissue; cracking performance.
#classicalmusic
#classicalmusiccollection #alphaclassics #EarlyMusic #noFilter #reissue #opera #vocalmusic #englishclassicalmusic
#morninglistening to @BENETCA on @NaxosRecords w/@BrouwerTrio
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/71IUlSG
#classicalmusic #naxosrecords #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #ChamberMusic #repertoireexplorer #21stCenturyMusic #contemporarymusic #SpanishMusic @brouwer_trio #BenetCasablanca
#morninglistening to #AlfredoCasella on @ChandosRecords w/@BBCPhilharmonic & @NosedaG
@surprisedbeauty music.
#classicalcdcollection
#classicalmusiccollection
#classicalmusic #orchestralsongs #italianmusic #20thCenturyMusic #surprisedbybeauty
#morninglistening to #Vivaldi on #BIS w/@1b1tweets
#AntonioVivaldi #fluteconcertos
#classicalcdcollection
#classicalmusiccollection
#classicalmusic #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #flutemusic #italianbaroque #recordermusic
#morninglistening to #PetrEben w/ #MartinuQuartet on @supraphonCZ
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/6oa3Lk8
possibly @SurprisedBeauty-music…
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #czechmusic #ChamberMusic #stringquartet #20thCenturyMusic #surprisedbybeauty #PianoTrio #PianoQuintet
#morninglistening to #Sibelius on @OndineRecords w/@Yle_RSO & @hlintu
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/2vhLXRo
#lemminkäinen legends!
@surprisedBeauty music
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #contemporarymusic #20thCenturyMusic #finnishmusic #OrchestralMusic #JeanSibelius
#morninglistening to #Bach w/concertoItaliano & RinaldoAlessandrini on @naiverecords
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/6nyG7iI
#GoldbergVariations for small ensemble. #HIP -yet- totally unorthodox + #Passacaglia
♡♡♡ #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #ChamberMusic #JohannSebastianBach #historicalinstruments #historicallyinformedperformance #noFilter
#morninglistening to #JuliusBeliczay’s #Symphony No.1 & #Serenade w/#BudapestConcertOrchestra
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/3R4MzOI
Rather decent 1995 performances of rather interesting repertoire.
#classicalmusic #Sterling #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #orchestralmusic
#stringorchestra #repertoireexplorer #WorldPremiereRecordings #MAVzenekar
#morninglistening to #LvB #symphonies w/@RCOamsterdam & @BostonSymphony
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/7aRqMHt
der under/#RafaelKubelik - part of his international #Beethoven #Symphony cycle being reissued on #SACD.
#classicalmusic
#classicalmusiccollection #Decca #orchestralmusic #germanromanticism #Ludwigvan #ludwigvanbeethoven #classicalcdcollection #Kubelik
#morninglistening to #Stravinsky-rarities w/@LucerneFestival Orchestra undrr #Chailly on @DECCAclassics
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/3tW2ykd
#WorldPremiereRecordings - well, one. Ravishingly beautiful Stravinsky with the Rite a mere bonus. Igor at his most late-romantic French.
#lesacreduprintemps ♡♡♡ #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #20thCenturyMusic #IgorStravinsky #RiccardoChailly #OrchestralMusic #orchestralsongs #lucernefestivalorchestra
#morninglistening to #Bach’s #ArtoftheFugue w/@AccademiaBizant & #OttavioDantone on @DECCAclassics
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/6kfZNCQ
#DieKunstDerFuge
♡♡
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #JohannSebastianBach #historicalinstruments #historicallyinformedperformance #DieKunstDerFuge
#morninglistening to #Reger #organworks on #cpo:
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/VwzyuR2
w/#GerhardWeinberger.
After decades of dry Rheinberger, there are now two, three superb, sumptuous cycles available… This being one of them. The other is Buttmann’s on Oehms.
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #20thCenturyMusic #organmusic #noFilter #germanromanticism
Link Organ Giengen. Klais Organ Beckum
Symphonische Phantasie op.57 ¤ Sechs Trios op.47 ¤ Sieben Orgelstücke op.145 ¤ Suite op.92
#morninglistening to #FrancoisCouperin’s #Apotheosis w/@gli_incogniti on @harmoniamundi / @piasclassicsusa
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/6jj2mXI
w/@Amandine_Beyer
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #choralmusic #historicalinstruments #historicallyinformedperformance #HIP #frenchmusic
Only downside: Garbage verbose liner notes in the French style.