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In 2018, that is... Seen the press conference live, yesterday. Tried to find some recordings by Krill, what was difficult, as Vasily Petrenko recorded more. No relation, as I understood. Collected the recordings here http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/2015/06/kirill-petrenko-spotify-new-berliner.ht...

otterhouse

This is a surprisingly fine 1847 Passion Oratorio by a composer, primarily known as a “lieder” man; Carl Loewe. “Das Suhnopfer des neuen Bundes" (The Expiatory Sacrifice of the New Covenant ) Curious what you think of it: http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/2015/04/carl-loewe-passion-oratorio-das.ht...

otterhouse

Remember Collins Classics? I've wrote a small article about Collins Classics and a playlist of some favorite recordings: http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/2015/01/collins-classics-on-spotify.html I can still remember that a Dutch warehouse had these records for 10 guilders each (full price was 52 ...

otterhouse

Hello all, On Twitter, I heard someone say good things about Christian Blackshaw's Mozart cycle on Wigmore hall. Sampled them, and... hm... maybe the first sonata is a nice performance, but kv 570, 311, all a bit "too" much performer and too little of Mozart... I've put the CD's on: http://classical...

otterhouse

I don't know if it works, but can you open this track?

http://open.spotify.com/track/4iMoJE5WyOM3U5t8tTEpXA

Aria from the new year's cantata. It contains some harmonic surprises...

Rolf

otterhouse

Vienna New Years concert *Old Skool Style*
Reconstruction of the original 1952 vinyl on Spotify.
Hope you like this festive opening of 2015…!

http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/201 ... 52-on.html

otterhouse

The new year cantata (how apt now

) contains some harmonic surprises...

Rolf

otterhouse

Really? Just listen to the new years cantata, it has some striking music!

R.

otterhouse

Hé, thanks for the hint to Graupner's Christmas Oratorio. Not a "real" work, but a (very!) fine selection of Cantata's from the guy who should have gotten Bach's position as Thomascantor... http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/2014/12/christof-graupner-ein.html The cd itself is not on Spotify, but it...

otterhouse

Thanks for the links.
Curious about the Graupner cd!!
R.

otterhouse

Hello all,

Made a "this is the penultima baroque christmas playlist" (at least, for me

on Spotify.
Hope you like the performances I picked

http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/201 ... sical.html

Greetings! Rolf, Netherlands

otterhouse

Awesome! Hope it will be on Spotify also.
The original LP's are... ahm... a bit expensive...

Rolf

otterhouse

There have been *so* many CD's been produced the last decades, that some are bound to be forgotten a bit. Unjustifiably! What are the CD's that deserve to be put out of the shelf's (of played on spotify) again? My choice; The Shanghai Quartet and the Chung trio recordings --> http://classicalspotify...

otterhouse

Hi all, Recently got aquainted with the music of Théodor Gouvy (1819-1891). Admired bij Berlioz and Joseph Joachim, almost forgotten now. His music resembles Gottschalk sometimes! Curious wat you think of this music. http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/2013/11/groovy-goovy-gouvy.html Greetings, Rolf

otterhouse

Thanks, looks like it's paid per track and that some companies block the large tracks for that reason...!
Still finding new things on spotify also obscure labels and artists I lost track of...

Rolf
http://classical-lp.blogspot.nl

otterhouse

(posted this on the Gramophone forum, but no answers yet, so try it here!) Starting with a confession and a question; As I hardly buy any CD's anymore, it has been more than two years since I last bought a Gramophone magazine... Think it was june 2011, and although I peeked once and a while on this ...

otterhouse

One of the nicest "alternative" classical (and Jazz/world) stations is the Concertzender
Here is a promo video with English subs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOLf51SnaVo

http://www.concertzender.nl/?language=en

Discover!

Rolf

otterhouse

Hello all, Before I tell about the opera, first a general remark about classical CD prices. Nobody, not even in the shop in Rotterdam where I bought this CD, could explain me why there are such enormous differences in the price you have to pay for a CD. I understand that "appearance" and notes can g...

otterhouse

I wonder if you will ever have to pay for a youtube subscription...

Rolf

otterhouse

Curious what record/internet entrepreneurs think of this new development. The Concertgebouworchestra (and the AVRO broadcast organisation) throw complete live performances on youtube. Not the small files, but complete performances in HD... Well... enjoy it! First, 36 min worth of Lohengrin, conducte...

otterhouse

It's now also on youtube, in, mind you, HD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDfGBmbNbMw&fmt=22

Check that channel for more awesome concerts!

Rolf

otterhouse

Hello all, Last week's performance of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic is now (complete with no cut's!) on youtube in HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvuitFzDxDg&fmt=22 October 3rd, 2010 Live from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam As many other orchestra's in the Netherlands, this orchestra and the complet...

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Just found out it was recorded in 1959...

Rolf

otterhouse

Hello all, Yes! Youtube changed it's upload limit to 15 minutes. That means larger (concerto!) movements can be uploaded :) I tried the new limit with a 45 RPM of Elly Ameling on the Dutch CNR label (early 60's) I think it never appeared on CD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3hpsT5NgTE&fmt=22 Wonde...

otterhouse

Well folks, old news... :) Because this is a video of the 2008 festival of OLD music in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where an "authentic" orchestra played Stravinski's sacre: http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/avro/klassiek/video/webcast/concerten/fomu/080829_kolnerakademie_utrecht_deel2.wmv Interes...

otterhouse

Send you a tweet... Greetings from:

http://twitter.com/otterhouse

Rolf

(anyone else on Twitter here?)

otterhouse

[quote="THEHORN"]Mercadante was also one of the leading flutists of his day and wrote several flute concertos, which have been recorded by James Galway for R.C.A. .[/quote] Not only that, but in 1983 the last movement of his flute concerto in e was a nr 1 hit in the pop charts, and stayed there for ...

otterhouse

"Orazi e Curazi" is dramatically (and in libretto) one of the strongest opera's I know. But... I can't whistle a tune from it. That's the week point of his opera's I guess. Much of the opera rara cd is uploaded on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L37k4heUvI&fmt=18 Just buy the cd-box, and re...

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Leusink is the conductor of the Brilliant classics cycle. Nice that Buwalda gave a good performance, I am (I must admit) no fan of his singing. He has recorded for CPO (Handel) and Brilliant, but his insecure tone does not convince me. Only on a televised performance of a Willem de Fesch piece (forg...

otterhouse

I just found a box (moved in 2003 to Delft) of cd's I did not unpack. I think about 100. The older you get (early 40's now),
the more CD's you acquire. I love digging out these "forgotten cd's"

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/forum/recor ... gotten-cds

have not bought anything recently...

Rolf

otterhouse

@slofstra I'm amazed that there are even some tickets left... The Johannes & Mattheus are tradition since 1899 in the Concertgebouw, and it's one of the events "to be seen". Even if you don't like Bach, if you know what I mean... Here is the 1939 performance in Amazing sound: http://www.youtube.com/...

otterhouse

Hello all, It's from 1954, and the LP is "unprocessed", so the sound is not ideal. But I never heard of this pianist and I find it remarkable performances. It's in full HD, by the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axhXyWOi7-M&fmt=37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5SxL5ZXXK4&fmt=37 http://www.yout...

otterhouse

Would love to see more live performances, but in my early 40's, three young children I'm in "the traffic jam of life".
So canned music is what I consume the most...

Rolf

otterhouse

Hi all,

As there was an earlier discussion about this quartet, I uploaded my copy of the mms lp with
Haydn quartet in d minor Hob III 76 (op. 76/2), recorded in 1949

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOEUJf_Y8yw&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnYAJj8Rm00&fmt=18

Enjoy!

Rolf

otterhouse

94 years is a blessed age, but it made me a bit sad too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SOhPE6XsU&fmt=18

Rolf

otterhouse

In think more people wonder why there are so few Auclar recordings on the market:

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch. ... ce&thumbs=

I have Mozart 4th concerto on Fontana (but no time to transfer at the moment

Rolf

otterhouse

She had a large amount of cult followers on the now censored Dutch radio 4 forum:

http://tinyurl.com/ybxxrov

It's not always that perfect, but she has style and that "something" extra!

R.

otterhouse

The EMI "icons" series is a disaster, soundwise. So much is going on in restoring these records, and EMI makes it sound like a cheap remastering from the 1980's.
Shameful!

R.

otterhouse

Old world Rachmaninov:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPAqjoumvAA&fmt=18

Hope you like it!

Rolf

otterhouse

[quote="ChrisX"][quote="otterhouse"]The plug is pulled out of "viertakt vroeg", and that more or less caused a riot... :evil: [/quote] What program did I hear this morning then?[/quote] ----------------------------- Vietakt vroeg will be replaced feb 1st. So enjoy it while you can! The (excellent) p...

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The plug is pulled out of "viertakt vroeg", and that more or less caused a riot... :evil: here is an automatic translation : http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fbinnenland%2Farticle1339341.ece%2FProtest_Radio_4_loopt_ui...

otterhouse

Hello all, There are a lot of "troubles" going on with the Dutch Radio 4. Programming is popularized and there have been a lot of protests on the radio 4 forum. The forum was therefore... deleted. But it raises the question, why do you listen to (classical) radio? There are enough CD's around with a...

otterhouse

Here is a list of MMS records on my youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... type=&aq=f

Only this one is missing on the list:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXR5c3EF2O8&fmt=18

Rolf

otterhouse

I have written 2 articles about MMS / Concert hall artists:

http://homepages.ipact.nl/~otterhouse/mms.htm
http://homepages.ipact.nl/~otterhouse/pina_pozzi.htm

One of my "to do" things is to write a discography of all known LP's.
I have all the data, but no time to finish the work ...

Rolf

otterhouse

Finally, I am awake at 01.22 hs am

So for the first time I can listen live to your program!
Greetings from the Netherlands,

Rolf

otterhouse

Thanks

It's a "Barrington-Coupe'd" version of a "supermarket" cd...
But it's nice to read along with the rythmic trick Schubert shows. And you
see how "compact" it is composed. Don't know if you see any details you have
not heard before...

Greetings,

Rolf

otterhouse

Hello all,

As an experiment, I uploaded Schubert's Quartettsatz in c-minor on youtube with score:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMjGjavbXfI&fmt=18

It's the first time I did a complete work with score, so it's not perfect.
But I hope you like it, and can read along!

Rolf

otterhouse

Been there, done that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcrVY7BlhfE&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDuP8Gtx_E&fmt=18

Rolf

otterhouse

Hello Lance, Around 1994, I did an internship at NM (later cnm) classics. Fun time! That's how I got to interview Peter Schat. In the Netherlands, he was a public figure. He participated in Provo actions in the '60's and was part of the notourious 1969 Reconstruction opera. There is an excellent (Du...

otterhouse

To my humble opinion, there are 3 Dutch composers, who are in the "A" category:

-Sweelinck
-Diepenbrock
-Louis Andriessen

Diepenbrock had a underestimated influence on Strauss and Mahler.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... type=&aq=f

Rolf

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