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- Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:11 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Robert Mann dead at 97
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4030
Robert Mann dead at 97
Robert Mann, the founding and for more than a half-century the lead violinist of the Julliard String Quartet, died Monday at his Manhattan home at 97;. Here's the NYT obituary: Robert Mann, a Founder of the Juilliard Quartet, Dies at 97 By MARGALIT FOX Robert Mann, the founding first violinist of th...
- Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61UD4jpZWcL._SS500.jpg The earlier version of Bach's well-known Magnificat in D. It includes four Christmas interpolations, known as "laudes" and has been recorded before, most notably last year by John Butt's Dunedin Consort. This new CD, IMO, is pr...
- Sat Oct 07, 2017 5:07 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Monteverdi "L'Orfeo"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4458
Re: Monteverdi "L'Orfeo"
Hi Belle -- Agree completely with jbuck and I too thank you for that link -- a splendid presentation. Monteverdi's operas have been among my favorites since Nikolaus Harnoncourt recorded themon the old Telefunken label back in the 70s. Tomorrow, I leave for Chicago to hear John Eliot Gardiner and hi...
- Sun Sep 24, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: THE POWER OF MYTH
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12992
Re: THE POWER OF MYTH
Hi Dulcinea -- It depends on one's understanding of "mythology." Many believe the Judeo-Christian scriptures to be as mythological as the Bhagavad-Gita or the Elder Edda. Certainly classical mythology has long played a role in classical music --the French baroque composers has a field day with the c...
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Dame Kiri retires
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17270
Dame Kiri retires
The renowned New Zealand soprano, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, has announced that she is through singing in public.
Here is a fine account from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/ ... ade-career
Here is a fine account from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/ ... ade-career
- Sun Sep 17, 2017 4:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Gould-berg Variations Madness
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8592
Gould-berg Variations Madness
Sony has issued a deluxe set of Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of the Goldbergs. Five CDs are devoted to every single session take of each variation (18 takes of Variation 12). One CD is devoted to the final result and another CD to an interview of Gould with critic Tim Page.The original LP is reprodu...
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/712yng7R5vL._SL1417_.jpg Vol. 72 of the Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Series is devoted to works of Cipriani Potter, a now-largely forgotten figure, but once a leading light in British music in the first half of the 19th Century. A renowned pianis...
- Thu Sep 07, 2017 3:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
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Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
Nelson Freire made his recording debut in 1967 with Brahms' F minor sonata. Now--50 years later--he has returned to it with this beautifully performed and recorded CD. The accompanying shorter pieces are also very fine.
- Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:19 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
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Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
Recently issued to commemorate the completion of Suzuki and the BCJ's recording of the Bach cantatas. Predictably excellent performances of three cantatas, plus interviews with Suzuki and other participating musicians.
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Shock death of Ernst Ottensamer
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8225
Re: Shock death of Ernst Ottensamer
My sympathies, Belle, and my thanks to you for providing this sad information. I am re-programming my radio show for tonight to include a recording by Ernst Ottensamer.
- Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:49 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: This Sunday Idomeneo PBS Thirteen
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4378
Re: This Sunday Idomeneo PBS Thirteen
Thanks for the alert, Len. I would have missed it otherwise, but instead had an enjoyable Sunday afternoon watching and listening to it.
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81O5jqg0ggL._SL1400_.jpg The entire Karajan Ring on a single Blu-ray disc. It will never be my favorite Ring, but it certainly has its moments. The accompanying hardcover book is well done, although some of the included photos are unintentionally fun...
- Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:56 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Tate/Mozart
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8543
Re: Tate/Mozart
Hi David --
Keeping in mind my preference for period instruments, I also recommend the Hogwood set, aswell as this fine set from Pinnock.
Keeping in mind my preference for period instruments, I also recommend the Hogwood set, aswell as this fine set from Pinnock.
- Fri Jun 30, 2017 5:22 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61a6m98nG0L._SL1207_.jpg I was in the audience when this live recording was made, so it is a nice souvenir of a wonderful week in Chicago. Beyond that, it is a fine Bruckner 9th. Not my favorite (Haitink, Abbado, Karajan take the palm for me) but ver...
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 5:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: New Toscanini biography -- Yikes!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15444
New Toscanini biography -- Yikes!
There are some things about the great conductor I would rather not know.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/book ... ries-below
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/book ... ries-below
- Fri Jun 09, 2017 4:29 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91xTdUByFDL._SL1500_.jpg This 2-CD set marks the completion of cpo's effort to record all of Johannes Brahms 200-plus lieder. Like the preceding 9 volumes it is a worthy effort. Soprano Juliane Banse won't erase memories of Ameling, Schwarzkopf and L...
- Thu Jun 08, 2017 9:29 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Lance!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9341
Re: Happy Birthday, Lance!
Happy (belated) Birthday, Lance. May you have many more filled with music.
- Thu May 18, 2017 5:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Prosseda pianist: Complete Mendelssohn plus unpublished
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2661
Re: Prosseda pianist: Complete Mendelssohn plus unpublished
Thanks, Lance; I will keep my eye out for it. I see it runs about $42 on Amazon UK.
- Tue May 16, 2017 9:06 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71JCl5qwJLL._SL1200_.jpg I have assiduously collected Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series since it began in 1991, and for the most part enjoyed the individual releases. Volume 71 is an exception. Despite Howard Shelley's ardent and skillful adv...
- Tue May 02, 2017 9:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Monteverdi the magnificent
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3253
Re: Monteverdi the magnificent
I already have my tickets for Oct. 12-15 when Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings his Monteverdi Choir and other forces to the Harris Theater in Chicago for all three Monteverdi operas. As a sort of counterbalance, I will be back in Chicago the following month for two performances of Die Walkure at the L...
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:25 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Renee Fleming bids farewell to the Met
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5058
Renee Fleming bids farewell to the Met
I sincerely hope this performance was recorded and will be available on DVD or for broadcast. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/arts/music/rosenkavalier-renee-fleming-met.html?&target=comments&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&modref=HPCommentsRefer&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-regi...
- Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:46 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Du Yun wins 2017 Pulitzer for music
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3477
Du Yun wins 2017 Pulitzer for music
Composer Du Yun has won the Pulitzer Prize for music for her opera "Angel's Bone."
http://wbaa.org/post/du-yuns-angels-bon ... c#stream/0
http://wbaa.org/post/du-yuns-angels-bon ... c#stream/0
- Sat Apr 08, 2017 1:24 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The symphonies of Sibelius
- Replies: 47
- Views: 51594
Re: The symphonies of Sibelius
Hi Maestro -- There are several fine Sibelius symphony cycles in modern sound. For reasons I don't understand the British have proven to be champions of the Finnish composer. Colin Davis has recorded the cycle at least three times (all very fine). Then there are Beecham and Barbirolli. For me, as I ...
- Tue Apr 04, 2017 1:17 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Berlin concertmaster dead
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2849
Berlin concertmaster dead
The Berlin Philharmonic has announced the death of its former and long-time concertmaster,Thomas Brandis: The violinist Thomas Brandis earned the highest of reputations as 1st concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, a soloist and as a chamber musician. On 30 March, he died at the age of 81. Bo...
- Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71AFWXePzqL._SL1200_.jpg Volume 70 of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series. No Beethoven 4th or Brahms 1st here, but three previously unknown works, enjoyable in beautifully played and recorded performances. Volume 71, devoted to concertos by Ca...
- Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Music of Sergei Bortkiewicz
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6754
Re: Music of Sergei Bortkiewicz
Hi Len --
Hyperion has served Bortkiewicz rather well. Stephen Coombs has recorded a double album (2 for the price of 1) of solo piano music, as well as the composer's piano concerto. Martyn Brabbins has recorded the Symphonies 1 & 2. I recommend all of them.
Hyperion has served Bortkiewicz rather well. Stephen Coombs has recorded a double album (2 for the price of 1) of solo piano music, as well as the composer's piano concerto. Martyn Brabbins has recorded the Symphonies 1 & 2. I recommend all of them.
- Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:39 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Where is everybody?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21831
Re: Where is everybody?
Vision problems have somewhat curtailed my piano practice lately but upcoming cataract surgery might help. Once the weather warms up (this is the Mid-Hudson Valley) I will resume work on my harpsichord project (I do the spray painting out in the garage). Hope and prayers the surgery goes well. Woul...
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Where is everybody?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21831
Re: Where is everybody?
Vision problems have somewhat curtailed my piano practice lately but upcoming cataract surgery might help. Once the weather warms up (this is the Mid-Hudson Valley) I will resume work on my harpsichord project (I do the spray painting out in the garage). Hope and prayers the surgery goes well. Woul...
- Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Where is everybody?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21831
Re: Where is everybody?
Hi Lance -- Opportunities for live classical music in the middle of North Dakota are exceedingly rare. I just returned from L.A. where I heard the Philharmonic with Helene Grimaud in the Brahms 1st Concerto and then the following night the Venice Baroque in a program of Vivaldi, Geminiani, Galuppi a...
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 4:46 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Monteverdi 450
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2495
Monteverdi 450
Sir John Eliot Gardiner is bringing his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists to the US in October for performances of Monteverdi's Orfeo, Il Ritorno di Ulisse and Incoronazione di Poppaea. The tour opens at Chicago's Harris Theater and then moves to Lincoln Center. I just scored good ticket...
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:36 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Deborah Borda returns to the NY Philharmonic
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4993
Deborah Borda returns to the NY Philharmonic
Good news, I think, for New York; less so for Los Angeles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/arts ... v=top-news
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/arts ... v=top-news
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:30 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Snow means listening to more music!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6715
Re: Snow means listening to more music!
Hi Lance -- I think people in more southern climes don't understand the joy of "snow days." Earlier this year, I was snow-blocked in my house for four days, but I had a well-stocked larder, liquor cabinet and wine cellar, thousands of CDs and books, a happy little cat and a comfy chair. I almost res...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
Dutch fortepianist Ronald Brautigam has completed his survey of the complete piano works of Beethoven. Devoted mostly to the Diabelli Variations, this new CD upholds the excellence of previous volumes.
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:56 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: R.I.P. Kurt Moll (1938-2017 .)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6754
Re: R.I.P. Kurt Moll (1938-2017 .)
If I had to live with just two recordings of "Parsifal," Karajan's would be one of them - the most beautiful "Parsifal" I've ever heard. The other would be the Philips recording from Bayreuth 1962 conducted by Knappertsbusch, the most profound. This not just in the conducting but the singing, in bo...
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:24 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: R.I.P. Kurt Moll (1938-2017 .)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6754
Re: R.I.P. Kurt Moll (1938-2017 .)
Here is Kurt Moll in one of his finest roles -- the Commendatore -- in what has to be one of the finest opera stagings ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 6:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Mahler biographer dead at 92
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3004
Mahler biographer dead at 92
Henry-Louis de la Grange, whose obsession with Gustav Mahler led him to write a 3,600-page biography of the composer, has died at the age of 92. Here's a link to the NYT obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/books/henry-louis-de-la-grange-dead-mahler-biographer.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action...
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 3:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: One musician's experience with the CSO
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8687
Re: One musician's experience with the CSO
Thanks for posting this, Belle. It is indeed "slightly disturbing."
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
The conclusion of The Cardinall's Musick survey of the complete sacred music of Thomas Tallis. Of special interest is the motet "Sing and Glory," with an English test set to the Tallis's magnificent 40-part "Spem in alium."
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Schubert's Masses
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5204
Re: Schubert's Masses
I too support Lance's recommendation. I've usually found Leinsdorf to be a dependably pedestrian conductor, but somehow this particular work really lit his fire. Also on Testment is a wonderful recording by Rafael Kubelik. Then there is the 7-CD set of Schubert sacred works by Wolfgang Sawallisch. S...
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Performers who can only do one composer well
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13043
Re: Performers who can only do one composer well
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), a leading composer and keyboard performer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras.
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Roberta Peters, RIP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1988
Roberta Peters, RIP
A well-written obituary in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/arts ... ottom-well
- Sat Jan 14, 2017 4:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Donald Isler!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4169
Re: Happy Birthday, Donald Isler!
Happy Birthday, Donald, with best wishes for many, many more!
- Mon Jan 02, 2017 3:34 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 2017 & My Quest to Learn the Liszt Sonata
- Replies: 47
- Views: 28439
Re: 2017 & My Quest to Learn the Liszt Sonata
Hi Garrett --
Agree completely with maestrob's recommendations and would add this superb performance by Minoru Kojima which has long been highly regarded by critics and audiophiles.
- Sun Jan 01, 2017 2:58 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A very Happy New Year, CMGers!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13075
Re: A very Happy New Year, CMGers!
A happy and music-filled New Year to all!
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:24 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
Maestrob asked "(...and what's that American eagle doing on the cover......?)"
The beak is the wrong color, but otherwise the coloration is close to that of the European version of the Golden Eagle which is found in the Alps
The beak is the wrong color, but otherwise the coloration is close to that of the European version of the Golden Eagle which is found in the Alps
- Sun Dec 25, 2016 12:17 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 2016 classical necrology
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5333
2016 classical necrology
It's that time of year again when we look on the past 12 months and recall those who have died and have contributed to our enthusiasm for classical music. This is a much-pruned list from Wikipedia. Please feel free to add to it. January 1: Gilbert Kaplan, American businessman and amateur conductor o...
- Mon Nov 28, 2016 9:31 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How does Sir John Barbirolli stack up with others?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16051
Re: How does Sir John Barbirolli stack up with others?
My first Barbirolli recording, a superb 1967 Eroica, recommended by Stereo Review, made me an admirer of Sir.John. Several years later, I bought his unsurpassed 1962 Tallis Fantasia (a desert island choice if there ever was one). It confirmed for me that he was a truly great conductor. This Dec. 19,...
- Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4708
- Views: 2481805
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
Our local library holds two used book/record sales every year to raise money for various special projects, most especially our splendid children's library. The Friends of the Library, who unbox and sort the books and who man the cash register, are given a three-hour pre-sale opportunity to stock up....
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 2:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Chicago Lyric Ring
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2373
Re: Chicago Lyric Ring
Leave for Chicago in three days with tickets for Rheingold on the 9th and again on the 13th. Will report when I get back.
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 11:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Hyperion's "Classic" Piano Concerto Series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7184
Re: Hyperion's "Classic" Piano Concerto Series
I have many of the Romantic Piano Concerto series, but it runs to dozens and dozens, and I'm not sure I'll embark on this series. Ted and Lance, what are the Mozart fils concertos like? Worth hearing? I have one work by him, a Diabelli variations entry on the marvellous double CD set by Demus. Hi B...