...The orchestra, conducted from the keyboard, plays with chamber-like assurance and great sensitivity, adding greatly to this wholesome delight. This is one of the longest-running performance- and recording projects in this increasingly short-lived industry, dating back to 1998 (the first self-conducted Mozart performance of Uchida’s in Cleveland) and 2009 (the first recording of that collaboration) respectively...
#morninglistening to #Gluck’s #OrfeoEdEuridice (1774 vers.) on @warnerclassicsus / @warnerclassics w/#PhilippeJaroussky et al.
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/7d28eRz
Also: #AmandaForsythe (the “e” makes the difference), #EmőkeBarath & #IBarocchisti w/#DiegoFasolis & #corodellaradiotelevisionesvizzera
#classicalmusic #opera
#classicalmusiccollection #cdcollection @warner_classics #WarnerClassics #ChristophWillibaldGluck
#morninglistening to #Mozart #StringQuartets on @warnerclassics / @warnerclassicsus w/#AlbanBergQuartet
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/5qJQz9f
Set of their cycle of late Mozart quartets, also including a few #StringQuintets & #PianoQuartet #KV493 & #StringQuartet version of #PianoConcerto No.12 both with #AlfredBrendel
#classicalmusic #ChamberMusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #wienerklassik #WolfgangAmadeusMozart
...It’s easier to quip about Philip Glass’ music than to write intelligently about it. But Víkingur (Heiðar) Ólafsson, the young and trendy Icelandic pianist, shows how it’s done in the liner notes to his first release on Deutsche Grammophon. I first heard the Juilliard-taught student of Ann Schein and Seymour Lipkin when he was a stiff tween at the Icelandic Ambassador’s residence. His image has changed, since...
#morninglistening to @VanHalen’s #Panama - to little avail - in honor of #PAN vs. #ENG @FIFAWorldCup:
6:1! #ENGPAN
Not #classicalmusic but a classic, certainly.
#VanHalen #cdcollection
Next up: Rock You Like A Harry Kane!
#morninglistening to #IgnazHolzbauer’s “Tod der Dido” on @CarusVerlag w/#SandrinePiau et al.
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/1SCH08u
#Singspiel in one act in the early Viennese style, a bit like immature Mozart + half a Mannheim Rocket.
#classicalmusic
#classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection Early #WienerKlassik #Opera #vocalmusic #CarusVerlag
#KammerchorStuttgart #BarockorchesterStuttgart #FriederBernius
#morninglistening to @surprisedbeauty composers on @CapriccioRec w/@ORF #RSOWien
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/2bd3rK8
w/#BenjaminSchmid, #ClaireHuangci & #HarrietKrijgh.
Two completely different #SovietComposer, musically & politically.
(My liner notes.)
#MieczysławWeinberg
#DmitryKabalevsky
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #orchestralmusic
#ORFViennaRadioSymphonyOrchestra
#capricciorecords #noFilter #SurprisedByBeauty #20thcenturyclassical #SovietClassicalMusic #RussianClassicalMusic
#morninglistening to @surprisedbeauty composer Ernő v. #Dohnanyi w/#MartinRoscoe & #VerbrughQuartet on #ASV:
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/AEPlgos
#PianoQuintet op.1, Suite in the Old Style, #PQ5t op.26
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #ChamberMusic #surprisedbybeauty #pianoquintets #HungarianClassicalMusic
#morninglistening to the sublime @surprisedbeauty composer #OthmarSchoeck on #Jecklin. Songs & #ChoralMusic
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/6Eqkc8M
w/wonderful #ErnstHaefliger et al. The #choralworks almost have a Scandinavian ring to them.
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #20thcenturyclassical #surprisedbybeauty #vocalmusic #liedmelodieartsong
#morninglistening to @GuerzenichOrch w/#DmitriKitayenko in #Sibelius + #Grieg:
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/1BV499M
on @OEHMSclassics w/the Second #Symphony
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #20thCenturyMusic #SurprisedByBeauty music! #orchestralmusic #symphonies #nordicMusic #Gürzenich #EdvardGrieg #DmitrjKitajenko #CologneMusic #MusikInKöln
...Now Alfredo Bernadini and his Ensemble Zefiro, one of the hottest numbers among original instrument ensembles, have brought out a delicious album that samples some of that goodness by bringing together eight works from this embarrassment of riches associated with the Dresden Court Chapel, featuring seven different composers. The chamber sonatas for two oboes, bassoon and continuo by Fasch, Quantz, Henichen, Vivaldi, Telemann, Lotti – and the much less well known Arcangelo Califano are a baroque delight among the less familiar musical spheres and a great sampler for what else, other than the usual suspects, one might want to explore in music from that period and region. ..
#morninglistening to a trio of @surprisedbeauty #PianoTrios by #Debussy, #Fauré & #Roussel! http://a-fwd.to/70fxxZp On @chandosrecords w/@NeaveTrio #ChamberMusic #classicalcdcollection #classicalmusiccollection #classicalmusic #surprisedbybeauty music! #20thcenturyclassical #FrenchRomanticism #ClaudeDebussy #GabrielFaure / #GabrielFauré File under #AlbertRoussel
#morninglistening to #Haydn’s #Theresienmesse w/@Tafelmusik & #BrunoWeil on @sony_classical
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #ChoralMusic #vocalmusic
#josephhaydn #wienerklassik #mass #inMemoriam #EvG♡
#morninglistening through the tears to #bachcantatas in memory of the deeply cherished, urgently missed #EnochZuGuttenberg
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #cantatas
#inMemoriam #BachStiftung
#morninglistening through the tears to #bachcantatas in memory of / to help cope with the deeply saddening death of #EnochZuGuttenberg
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #cantatas
#inMemoriam #BachStiftung
...Something similar happens on this disc, except the nine Mahler-songs included – four from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Rückert-Lieder – do steal the show. Also recorded two years before the symphony (1982), but in the same glorious, rich analogue sound, it features the lyric Lied-baritone Siegfried Lorenz. His timbre, his naturalness, his dead-on intonation, and his lyrical quality make his voice knee-bucklingly beautiful. I’d go so far as suggesting he is a proto-Gerhaher. And if the “Songs of a Wayfarer” selection, originally on the LP, wasn’t good enough, the CD adds the bonus of one of the most touching Rückert-Lieder cycles I know on record. Try and not just melt right into Lorenz singing “Es ist mir auch gar nichts daran gelegen…” in Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen...
#morninglistening to ♡ @ViktoriaMullova in #Brahms’ #ViolinConcerto et al. on @Deccaclassics w/@BostonSymphony
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/2QieXPZ
w/#SeijiOzawa
#JohannesBrahms #violinconcertos
#classicalcdcollection
#classicalmusic #Mullova #Ozawa #classicalmusic #BostonSymphony #classicalcdcollection #classicalmusiccollection #orchestralmusic #germanromanticism
...When GerhaherHuber started out recording for the Munich based upstart Arte Nova label[1], the two major Schubert cycles, Müllerin and Winterreise, were an obvious choice. But the Duo hadn’t quite arrived at its peak mutual artistic maturity yet. Both cycles are very good and easily recommendable, but they are not indicative of what puts that duo into a league of their own. I always recommended them with the caveat that the ‘real deal’ was much more impressive, still. When the two performed Die Schöne Müllerin at the 2013 Salzburg Festival, however, they had clearly arrived:...
#morninglistening to #Bach #cantatas in the mountains w/@SampsonCarolyn, #PetraMüllejans & @FreiburgBaroque on @harmoniamundi
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/4DJVn88
Specifically #cantata #BWV199 Mein Herze schwimmt in Blut w/the last aria “Wie freudig ist mein Herz”
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #choralmusic #JohannSebastianBach #historicalinstruments #FreiburgBaroqueOrchestra #historicallyinformedperformance #CarusVerlag #Bachedition #bachcantata #weddinganniversary
#morninglistening to #Buxtehude #organmusic w /#HaraldVogel on #mDG:
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/4cmhuNs
♡ Really the most terrific cycle of this music I’ve heard so far. Listened through the whole set in one go. ♡
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #organworks #solokeyboard #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #noFilter #danishmusic #originalinstruments
#morninglistening to ♡ #Janacek #SQ4ts on @GramolaKlassik:
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/1lgRPX4
w/the #AciesQuartet
Prime @surprisedbeauty music
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #chambermusic #20thCenturyMusic #SurprisedByBeauty #StringQuartets #StringQuartet #CzechMusic #LeošJanáček #LeosJanacek #Janáček #Gramola
#morninglistening to the #Bach #ViolinSonatas w/@JVinikour & @RBPviolinist on @cedilleRecords
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/5BAfb9u
#BWV114 - 119
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #chambermusic #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #harpsichord #JohannSebastianBach
...The 1620s weren’t good years; instead of singing in church, most young men were dying in battle or from the plague. What was left were a few undernourished choristers, and these works are written for thus depleted, untrained vocal forces. Historically incorrect, the North German Chamber Chorus does a very considerably better job than the original performers would have done. Simplicity reigns, as does humble beauty. An unassuming minor gem...
#morninglistening to the #BudapestStringQuartet’s 1950s #Beethoven #SQ4ts w/@TimPageWriter
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/73DQfln
(see also the @ionarts #beethovenstringquartets survey)
#chambermusic over lunch w/#TimPage 😍
#classicalcdcollection #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #chambermusic #StringQuartets #StringQuartet #WienerKlassik #Ludwigvan #ludwigvanbeethoven #LvB
#morninglistening to #Mysliveček #symphonies
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/76CVxbW
w/#PragueChamberOrchestra on @SupraphonCZ
over lunch w/#TimPage 😍
tip-top charming works by this #Mozart-contemporary
#classicalmusic
#classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #Symphony #czechclassicalmusic #18thcenturyclassical #18thCenturyMusic #Chandos #LondonMozartPlayers #Myslivecek #MozartContemporary
#morninglistening to #Schoenberg & #Berg w/@berlinphil: http://a-fwd.to/757Aoec on @dgclassics under @KarajanMusic. #PelleasEtMelisande & 3 Pieces from the #LyricSuite One of his most glorious albums. In the mountains amid wild blueberries. #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #orchestralmusic #20thCenturyMusic #arnoldschoenberg #AlbanBerg #WhosAfraidofSchoenberg #2ndvienneseschool
#morninglistening to #Dohnanyi on @_Hungaroton - in the mountains
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/67kkKdf
#TamasVasary conducting the #budapestsymphonyorchestra
#Suite #symphonic minutes #konzertstück #ErnőDohnányi #ErnstvonDohnányi #HungarianComposer #HungarianClassicalMusic #SurprisedByBeauty #orchestralmusic
#morninglistening to
#Monteverdi #madrigals on #GlossaMusic w/@La_Venexiana
Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/hjudujq
In the mountains w/#snowRose & a view.
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #QuintoLibro #ChoralMusic
#madrigali #ClaudioMonteverdi