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I am listening to Beethoven's "Pastoral" with Leopold Stokowski and the New York City Symphony Orchestra from a 1945 recording. It is coupled with a 1940 Sinfonia Concertante with Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The soloists are Marcel Tabuteau, oboe; Bernard Portnoy, clarinet; Sol Schoenb...

I have to spend more time here than I do. Martinu would be my first choice. I am cheating, in a way, because I could also meet Einstein at the same time since they both taught at Princeton. When I listen to Martinu's sound world it is so different from anything else I know. I would love to get insid...

The past couple evenings I have been listening to Strauss family music played by the Vienna String Sextet. The experience, as the ARG reviewer put it, is like listening to the music in the intimate atmosphere of a tavern (yes, I had a few German beers to add to the experience). The contents: Kunstle...

I am listening to Bernstein's Mass. Kent Nagano is conducting the Deutsches Symphonie-Orcheter Berlin with Jerry Hadley as the Celebrant. I haven't decided if I like it or not.