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15.7.18

#morninglistening tuned to #FRACRO @FIFAWorldCup final:...



#morninglistening tuned to #FRACRO @FIFAWorldCup final: #Pejačevič vs. #Debussy.

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#classicalmusic & real #football.

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#morninglistening to #SPECTER - #Antheil...



#morninglistening to #SPECTER - #Antheil w/@Duo_Odeon

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“Gebauer” #ViolinSonata No.4, #ViolinConcerto (reduction) & #SpecterOfTheRose #Waltzes

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14.7.18

#morninglistening to #Jongen & #Britten for #BELENG match...



#morninglistening to #Jongen & #Britten for #BELENG match for third place @FIFAWorldCup. (Congrats to #JosephJongen / @BelRedDevils)

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#morninglistening to #Munich-#American composer #GloriaCoates in...



#morninglistening to #Munich-#American composer #GloriaCoates in #chambermusic & #Symphony No.10

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13.7.18

On ClassicsToday: Rostropovich, Cellist of the Century?

Big Boxes: Rostropovich On Warner

by Jens F. Laurson

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After lavish and huge boxed sets for Maria Callas and Itzhak Perlman, Warner Classics–drawing on its combined EMI Classics, Warner, and Erato back-catalogues–set its sights on Mstislav Rostropovich. The result is a still luxuriant 40-CD box with the same quality documentation (a 200-page... Continue Reading



Rostropovich & Ozawa: Dvorak Cello Concerto. Excerpt

10/10 on ClassicsToday: Vivaldi, Bagpipes, and Drunken Sailors


Vivaldi–Bagpipes, And Drunken Sailors

by Jens F. Laurson

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This disc opens with terrific, riveting interpretations of famous Vivaldi concertos “La Tempesta di Mare” and “Il Gardellino”–performances that absolutely fly off the page thanks to Jeremy Irons look-alike François Lazarevitch directing his band Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien while pla... Continue Reading


The Four Seasons (Il quattro stagione), excerpt 1




The Four Seasons (Il quattro stagione), excerpt 2

#morninglistening to #AmericanClassicalMusic of #Ruggles,...



#morninglistening to #AmericanClassicalMusic of #Ruggles, #Stucky & #Harbison on @NaxosRecords.

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Duh, #SunTreader, not Sun-Trader, as I had always called it in my head!!

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12.7.18

Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Some Like It Plush; Riccardo Chailly In Early And Rediscovered Stravinsky


...with so much unsuspected Stravinsky-goodness, it made me go and pull out my beloved Stravinsky-conducts-Stravinsky box (see also: The 10 Best Classical Recordings Of 2015) from the shelf. Why had I missed these works before? Did Stravinsky ever conduct them himself? Apart from the above-mentioned world premiere, yes. The Faun and the Shepherdess with Mary Simmons – in Russian! – and the CBC Symphony Orchestra in 1964 in Toronto ; Fireworks and the Scherzo Fantastique a year or two earlier – with the CBC Symphony the latter and with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra the former. Fireworks even got another, earlier, recording, in New York in 1946 with the New York Philharmonic. Sound quite different, there; the Lucerne Festival Orchestra is a far more luxurious-sounding body of sound; the CBC and Columbia outfits sound – comparatively – like the soundtrack to like a Turner Classic Movies film music special generally and more flitting, modern in the case of Feu d’artifice, especially. The box remains the go-to source to white-balance any expectations – but for these works, Chailly is the obvious go-to recording…

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