What I listened to today

[Rach3]

David Diamond's Symphonies Nos. 2 , 4 , 5 , 7 Gerard Schwartz, Seattle Symphony, Delos/Naxos on 2,4,5, Ormandy/PO, Columbia (?) on 7. Apparently , Diamond has fallen out of favor (?), but I enjoyed 2,4. Still to hear yet Nos. 3,8, 9.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0L2sWc ... 7c&index=2

[maestrob]

David Diamond's Symphonies Nos. 2 , 4 , 5 , 7 Gerard Schwartz, Seattle Symphony, Delos/Naxos on 2,4,5, Ormandy/PO, Columbia (?) on 7. Apparently , Diamond has fallen out of favor (?), but I enjoyed 2,4. Still to hear yet Nos. 3,8, 9.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0L2sWc ... 7c&index=2

Good listening, Steve. You probably know that Diamond used to be President of Manhattan School, and, like Morton Gould who became President of ASCAP, was very politically connected and thus performances and recordings of both composers' music were quite a bit more frequent during their lifetimes.

I taught voice to Morton Gould's niece Jennifer for 7-8 years, who was the daughter of Morton's brother Walter by his first marriage to Metropolitan Opera coloratura soprano, Mimi Benzell. (Of course, Jennifer decided to marry a doctor and raise kids after her years of study with me! !) Benzell was the Musetta to Bidu Sayao's Mimi with Richard Tucker's Rodolfo in the famous LP set of La Boheme recorded with the MET orchestra, but the costs were so prohibitive that that sort of project was not repeated. Benzell could sing rings around Andre Kostelanetz's far better known wife, Lili Pons, who famously suffered from terrible nerves and would throw up before nearly every performance. So sad. Benzell left the MET before they moved to Lincoln Center and established a pension plan: sadly, as she was quite successful on Broadway starring in a new musical "Milk & Honey," she died of cancer soon after the opening of the show.

Very glad when Diamond's symphony recordings with Schwarz were reissued on Naxos. They deserve to be kept in circulation, as does Gould's music.

[Rach3]

David Diamond's Symphonies Nos. 2 , 4 , 5 , 7 Gerard Schwartz, Seattle Symphony, Delos/Naxos on 2,4,5, Ormandy/PO, Columbia (?) on 7. Apparently , Diamond has fallen out of favor (?), but I enjoyed 2,4. Still to hear yet Nos. 3,8, 9.

Finished these hearings.To my ear, taste,Nos.2,4 the most attractive, and are paired on a Naxos with Schwartz/Seattle I may acquire at some point.

Went on to hear his Piano Concerto and Concerto for Two Solo Pianos.Enjoyed those and will look for a recording. Here are YT of the works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCsNz84T93U ( Solo piano )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE_gJJ3tgJs ( 2-piano )

[Wallingford]

Beethoven's Ninth (Ansermet)
Horowitz's 'Historic Return' of '65

[Wallingford]

Mozart Piano Conc.’s #15 & 17………………Casadesus, Szell (Columbia MS-7245)
‘100 Men & a Perfectionist’ – Szell, Cleve. Orch. (Columbia SOG-5)
Haydn Sym.’s #89 & 90………………Somogyi, Wiener Sym. ( Westminster WST-17043)
Schumann’s Sym. #3……………..Toscanini (RCA LM-2048)
Bizet’s Sym. In C…………….Allain, PCO (Remington RLP 198-31)
Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suites & Jeux d’enfants…………….A.Davis, TSO (Columbia IM-36713)
Chopin Etudes…………..Cortot (Pathe/Angel COLH-39)
Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique………….Argenta, PCO (London STS-15006)
Milhaud’s Sym. #1……..Milhaud; Sessions’ Sym. #2…………Mitropoulos, NYP (Columbia ML-4784)

[maestrob]

Beethoven's Ninth (Ansermet)
Horowitz's 'Historic Return' of '65

I've had a very special relationship with those LPs (and the later CD editions, of course) ever since I bought the 2 LP set as an awestruck 16 year-old. The opening Bach piece is beyond compare.

[Wallingford]

The list in my previous post above was really meant for what new items I've added to my collection.

[maestrob]

The list in my previous post above was really meant for what new items I've added to my collection.

Sure! I guessed that, actually.

[Rach3]

Respighi’s Concerto “ gregoriano “ (1921) for Violin and Orchestra live at 2021 Proms.

Violinist Sayaka Shoji with the Royal Phil. under Vasily Petrenko :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yfdb

Several firsts : First performance of the work at Proms ; the violinist’s debut ( she’s a Paganini Competition winner ) at Proms and her first time working with Petrenko ; Petrenko’s first appearance at Proms as Music Director of the RPO ; and my first hearing of the work . Doubt the work heard often. Pleasant, but probably a one-hear for me. Bit of a “Pines” conclusion. Still, Respighi surprises with this work, as with his wonderful Piano Concerto and Violin Sonata ( Heifetz recorded it ).

Encore: Sarabande from Ysaye’s 4th Sonata for Solo Violin

[maestrob]

Respighi’s Concerto “ gregoriano “ (1921) for Violin and Orchestra live at 2021 Proms.

Violinist Sayaka Shoji with the Royal Phil. under Vasily Petrenko :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yfdb

Several firsts : First performance of the work at Proms ; the violinist’s debut ( she’s a Paganini Competition winner ) at Proms and her first time working with Petrenko ; Petrenko’s first appearance at Proms as Music Director of the RPO ; and my first hearing of the work . Doubt the work heard often. Pleasant, but probably a one-hear for me. Bit of a “Pines” conclusion. Still, Respighi surprises with this work, as with his wonderful Piano Concerto and Violin Sonata ( Heifetz recorded it ).

Encore: Sarabande from Ysaye’s 4th Sonata for Solo Violin

Thanks for those! I enjoy Respighi's more obscure works, but don't get a chance to hear them often. The violinist is new to my ears; I'll give her a try soon!

[maestrob]

Respighi’s Concerto “ gregoriano “ (1921) for Violin and Orchestra live at 2021 Proms.

Violinist Sayaka Shoji with the Royal Phil. under Vasily Petrenko :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yfdb

Several firsts : First performance of the work at Proms ; the violinist’s debut ( she’s a Paganini Competition winner ) at Proms and her first time working with Petrenko ; Petrenko’s first appearance at Proms as Music Director of the RPO ; and my first hearing of the work . Doubt the work heard often. Pleasant, but probably a one-hear for me. Bit of a “Pines” conclusion. Still, Respighi surprises with this work, as with his wonderful Piano Concerto and Violin Sonata ( Heifetz recorded it ).

Encore: Sarabande from Ysaye’s 4th Sonata for Solo Violin

Much finer performance of the Concerto Grigoriano than the CD I own (see below). Respighi's Violin Sonata is also wonderfully played by Heifetz. I've heard several other versions, and his is still ranked #1 in my book. Tough piece to bring off.



Many thanks, Rach3!

[Rach3]

Cellist Johannes Moser playing the Elgar Cello Concerto at 2021 Proms.
One of my fav concertos, period, and Moser an excellent cellist I follow.Here a very strong reading with Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony. The BSO apparently asked Moser to appear with them.Starts about 18:00 in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yldm

[maestrob]

Cellist Johannes Moser playing the Elgar Cello Concerto at 2021 Proms.
One of my fav concertos, period, and Moser an excellent cellist I follow.Here a very strong reading with Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony. The BSO apparently asked Moser to appear with them.Starts about 18:00 in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yldm

Both artists are excellent: Karabits has done an excellent Prokofiev cycle and some fine Walton with the Bournemouth Symphony that are well worth investigating. Moser is a first-rank interpreter of course. I'll check this out as well, very soon. Love the Elgar. Thanks!

[Rach3]

Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya and pianist Joonas Ahonen play Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Nos.7 and 9 ("Kreutzer") earlier this month at 2021 Edinburgh Festival. She is a violinist I follow ; he the pianist on the recent new BIS cd of Charles Ives piano sonatas mentioned in a seperate topic here; and No.7 is my fav of those sonatas ( along with "Spring No.5 ) so listened with pleasure to their very fine, animated No.7. I did not hear No.9. Since it is Summer, I assume she played barefoot ; he I expect did not.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ylxl

[Rach3]

The slow mov. from Busoni’s own Toccata, one of the works on a new Chandos cd of Busoni solo piano works played by Peter Donohoe.While I have other recordings of the other works on the cd, my first hearing of the Toccata:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ftG1MLt3s

[Wallingford]

I dig out this performance on rare occasions....it's to hear Horowitz crash & burn on the end of the Schumann Toccata. I counted about half a dozen tape splices in one little area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QY4Sa0aYw

[jserraglio]

Dvorak: Rusalka
Staatstheater Braunschweig

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_lin ... e%3Dem-lsp

[Rach3]

Pianist Steven Osborne live at 2021 Edinburgh Festival. A pianist I follow. Comments by Osborne on the Tippett and Beethoven.The brief, “extreme" Tippett calls upon all a pianist and piano can provide. Were this performance a studio recording, amazing; that live , stunning.Osborne has recorded all 4 Tippett sonatas.Osborne does not over-burden the likewise “extreme “ Beethoven ; “ I don’t believe he realized what he had done.” A wonderful reading of the Beethoven by Osborne. The pianist bestows his infinite shadings and dynamics throughout this recital.

Schubert: Impromptu D935, No 1

Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op111

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yng5

[Rach3]

The Piano Concerto of Jules Massenet.

Well , because life is short.
Set the YT video quality up to 360p.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_NGvGQ1kMw

[maestrob]

Dvorak: Rusalka
Staatstheater Braunschweig

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_lin ... e%3Dem-lsp

Thanks for this, jserraglio! I may not watch the modern production, but I'll enjoy the singing nonetheless! Thursday is my opera day: let's see if this one stays available until then!

[jserraglio]

let's see if this one stays available until then!

Available till November, IIRC.

[Rach3]

Anton Rubinstein's Cello Concerto No.2 in D minor, Op.96:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxWtisbDYTg

Prefer it to any of his piano concertos.

[maestrob]

While this recording of Rachmaninov's Trio "Elegaique" No. 2 (his Op. 9) is still available on Amazon, I was lucky enough to receive it in the Russian Legends box for $.99/CD. PLaying it for the first time today, I am deeply impressed, not only with Leonid Kogan, who is by now a known quantity to connoisseurs, but by the scintillating pianism of Evgeny Svetlanov, well-known to all who read this as a magnificent symphonic conductor. I had not heard him play as a soloist before, and his keyboard skills rank with those of other pianist/conductors, such as Barenboim, Mitropoulos or Bernstein & Previn. This is truly a great performance of the Rachmaninoff, which features cellist Fiodor Luzanov, also previously unknown to me. Recorded in 1973, the sound is rich and full: it captures every nuance of one of the finest performances of this work I have ever heard. The CD I have is #66 from the Brilliant box, coupled with Khrennikov's Violin Concerto II, led by Svetlanov and, of course, played by Kogan.

If you look for the cover above, you can stream this on Amazon for free if you're a Prime member. Not yet available on Spotify, sadly. Search for "Rachmaninov" with a "V" at the end, not "FF."

Also found what sounds like this on youtube, but with no attribution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QlKcSF19jg

[Wallingford]

Casadesus doing Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, backed by Celibidache and Wiener Symphoniker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vINHROsjg

[Wallingford]

I've been listening to my vast library of performances of Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. I was delighted to come across a late-50s recording by Hans Jurgen-Walther, a performance I was weaned on as a kid.....amazing to finally hear the master tape in stereo, without compression. Not terribly virtuosic, but it's always been close enough for honors in my book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrKvFMpXi1I

[Rach3]

Casadesus doing Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, backed by Celibidache and Wiener Symphoniker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vINHROsjg

Many thanks for this ! One of my fav pianists playing one of my fav piano concertos, and live ! I have RC's recording of the work with Ormandy. Did not know of this performance with Celibidache.Wonderful even in YT sound. Some slips in the cadenzas , but live and powerful. I read somewhere that Pierre Boulez said this concerto was the most important piano concerto of the 20th Century.

[maestrob]

Casadesus doing Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, backed by Celibidache and Wiener Symphoniker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vINHROsjg

Many thanks for this ! One of my fav pianists playing one of my fav piano concertos, and live ! I have RC's recording of the work with Ormandy. Did not know of this performance with Celibidache.Wonderful even in YT sound. Some slips in the cadenzas , but live and powerful. I read somewhere that Pierre Boulez said this concerto was the most important piano concerto of the 20th Century.

FWIW: Boulez also thought that Stravinsky's 3 famous ballets were his most important, or "meillieur" works. Didn't quite say that the neoclassical works weren't important, but you could hear the sneer in his voice. This from a DVD lecture at the Louvre. I think the general idea was that Stravinsky was at his best when his music was painting pictures.

Boulez was prone to making pronouncements from his lofty intellectual perch, as is true of many French artists and philosophers.

Of course, we Americans are far more humble!

[Wallingford]

These past couple nights I've been doing a symposium of a few mono era pianists doing Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit. There's Michelangeli--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxX2WYYblo

Doyen, who did the first complete recording--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_sjZb0UfrI

and Francois--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZT0qW5gHIM

[maestrob]

These past couple nights I've been doing a symposium of a few mono era pianists doing Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit. There's Michelangeli--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxX2WYYblo

Doyen, who did the first complete recording--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_sjZb0UfrI

and Francois--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZT0qW5gHIM

You picked some of the finest, IMHO!

[Wallingford]

Schumann's Piano Concerto (Sauer/Mengelberg)
Chopin's Piano Concerto #1 (Rosenthal/Weissmann)

[Ricordanza]

The sticker still attached to this CD indicates that I bought it used from the Princeton Record Exchange in 2005. However, most of my listening these days is on daily walks, so I acquired this album for my iPhone and revisited this music over two days. What a delight! These works are full of interesting musical ideas, the piano writing is brilliant, and the orchestration is inventive and well done. The slow movement of the B minor concerto features a dialogue between the piano and the horns that is, by itself, worth the price of admission. Stephen Hough's performance of these enormously challenging works is masterful.

[Rach3]

The slow movement of the B minor concerto features a dialogue between the piano and the horns that is, by itself, worth the price of admission. Stephen Hough's performance of these enormously challenging works is masterful.

Thanks for this, not sure I'd ever heard the B minor Concerto. I do have a different recording of the A minor Concerto. Here is your Hough recording of the A minor (Hough's B minor is at YT as well ), whose Larghetto mov. I've long wondered may have inspired the Larghetto mov. of Chopin's 2nd F minor PC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYr7z1RYgaM

[Rach3]

Stephen Hough live at Edinburgh 2016 Festival. Some of the better of his playing I’ve heard, especially in the Schubert.

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor D 784
Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Hough: Piano Sonata III 'Trinitas'
Liszt: Valse Oubliée no 1 in F sharp minor S 215
Liszt: Valse Oubliée No 2 in A flat S 215
Liszt: Etude d'exécution transcendante No 11 in D flat S 139 'Harmonies du Soir'
Liszt: Etude d'exécution transcendante No 10 in F minor S 139 Read less

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000z0x2

[maestrob]

Stephen Hough live at Edinburgh 2016 Festival. Some of the better of his playing I’ve heard, especially in the Schubert.

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor D 784
Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Hough: Piano Sonata III 'Trinitas'
Liszt: Valse Oubliée no 1 in F sharp minor S 215
Liszt: Valse Oubliée No 2 in A flat S 215
Liszt: Etude d'exécution transcendante No 11 in D flat S 139 'Harmonies du Soir'
Liszt: Etude d'exécution transcendante No 10 in F minor S 139 Read less

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000z0x2

Marvelous! I'll get to this soonest. Thanks!

Later: A fine concert. Hough is not the world's greatest pianist, but he is very good, with many colors in his palette and a keen sense of tempo and how music should flow. I skipped all but the first movement of his Sonata, but the other repertoire was well-played. I particularly liked his Liszt & Franck.

I'm an admirer of his recent (2013) 2CD set of the Brahms Concerti: they rank with the best, IMHO. Better than the now-suddenly-popular but awkward fortepiano set from Andras Schiff, who really doesn't get how Brahms's music should flow. Lars Vogt, who, like Schiff, also conducts from the keyboard but plays a modern piano, is much better than Schiff.

[Wallingford]

Just finished Cortot's mid-50s Munich performance of Chopin's Second Sonata....this was a couple of years after his 1953 commercial release. Be sure to adjust your unbearableness scale accordingly.

Last night, I heard the Franck D Minor played by Rodzinski in 1937 with The NBC Symphony, several weeks before their debut. Toscanini picked him personally to train them, though according to some there was a falling-out between them.

[Rach3]

Chance to hear back to back excellent performances of two of Shostakovich’s chamber music masterpieces.

Aug. 27 , 2021 at Stiftskerk, Weerselo.

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/a5d6 ... itsj-extra

Cello Sonata, Op.40, Nino Gvetadze (piano), Maja Bogdanovic (cello)

Piano Quintet, Op.57, Anna Federova (piano), Dana Zemtsov (altviool), Francesco Sica (viool), David Cohen (cello), Daniel Rownland (viool)

[maestrob]

Chance to hear back to back excellent performances of two of Shostakovich’s chamber music masterpieces.

Aug. 27 , 2021 at Stiftskerk, Weerselo.

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/a5d6 ... itsj-extra

Cello Sonata, Op.40, Nino Gvetadze (piano), Maja Bogdanovic (cello)

Piano Quintet, Op.57, Anna Federova (piano), Dana Zemtsov (altviool), Francesco Sica (viool), David Cohen (cello), Daniel Rownland (viool)

Enjoy the quintet very much, but not such a fan of the Cello Sonata. Still, will give this a try. Don't know these performers...Thanks!

LATER: An energetic Quintet with good energy, thanks, Rach3! I do wish the violinist had better intonation and more lyricism in the slow movement, but that's a quibble. I'll give some of the rest a try another time.

[Rach3]

Well, over several days , not just today:


Pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar released in late 2020 on the Avie label recordings of 12 of Schubert’s piano sonatas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0UIHJZ ... 4&index=29

I listened to all with the exceptions of D.’s 850 and 958. Contrary to some on-line comments , I found the playing attractive. Pienaar’s readings are muscular, favor brisk tempi, dramatic, but coherent, some drafts of cold air coming down from the Alps.Wont be for all tastes. Perhaps more “charm” and whimsy would have helped in 537 , 568 and 575, but 664 was sensitive and effective, and Pienaar hit his stride fully in 784, 840,845,894,959. You may want to start with D.959 to get a sense of Pienaar’s approach.

Pienaar also has cd’s ( which are complete at YT as well ) of Bach’s “Goldberg” and complete WTC, complete Mozart piano sonatas, complete Beethoven piano sonatas, Beethoven “Diabelli”, complete Orlando Gibbons ( I have that 2-cd set ), and a 2-cd set of various 17th Century keyboard works ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPHRWzf ... c&index=16 ). His “ Diabelli” is forceful and spirited, perhaps the only recording of that work that holds my interest throughout. The Gibbons cd set is delightful and tastefully, appropriately scaled as is the 17th Century set. I have not heard the Mozart sonatas, none of the Beethoven sonatas except for excellent readings of Opa.109-110, nor the Bachs. Pienaar is not a big colorist, which does not bother me here. #36 and # 37 would be a good sample of the 17th Century cd.

Hopefully,the recorded sound is better from a source other than YT.

[maestrob]

I've had Pienaar's Gibbons since you brought it up last year and been well-rewarded, thanks! I'm currently comparing Uchida to Kempff in their respective Schubert Sonata cycles, so will take some time before I hear this one, but I've put it on my list for later. Nowhere near as famous as the other two, I firmly believe Pienaar deserves much more attention than he's getting.

[jserraglio]

Utrecht Festival of Early Music, 2021

Cavalieri, Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo (1600)

[maestrob]

Utrecht Festival of Early Music, 2021

Cavalieri, Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo (1600)

Sounds interesting! Is there a link, or was this a one-off?

[jserraglio]

Utrecht Festival of Early Music, 2021Cavalieri, Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo (1600)

Sounds interesting! Is there a link, or was this a one-off?

Not mine but I know the uploader from Europe won’t mind. (audio only. 256k).

Here is a concert of September 2nd by the famous Vox Luminis ensemble. They perform Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo. It made my jaw drop to floor when I heard it.. See what you think. (in mp3 quality): https://mega.nz/folder/bTJCVZ7Q#SEt7pAgtLPU-UQxx2sOOOQ

video another semi staged perf from 2 years ago. St. peter church nyc Bach Collegium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj0CDF1x8pc&t=408s

Festival Utrecht 2021 The Ensemble La Tempête presenting a very intriguing mix: Schütz's Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi interspersed with parts of Schein's israelis Brünnlein and traditional Byzantine music sung during Holy Week.
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq2Yt3qH12w
audio only 256k https://mega.nz/folder/CeZ20JYC#ZbneJMpWeQ3TJ3cMfxid0Q

[maestrob]

Dvorak: Rusalka
Staatstheater Braunschweig

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_lin ... e%3Dem-lsp

jserraglio:


What a lovely production, thank-you! Finally was able to hear/watch this all the way through! Julie Adams, a 2014 winner of the MET auditions (and other awards), made her European debut in this production. I looked her up and have posted a link to her online resume below. She's quite impressive, and her Czech is quite good (I've studied enough of the language to prepare two singers, one Ukranian & one American in the "Song to the Moon" aria which Renee Fleming sang to win her a First in the MET Auditions that started her career.). Lovely singing from the tenor as well. Everyone was quite splendid.


The washing machine as a prop brought a smile, as did the costumes. Very well done, all around.


Len, you should watch this: I think you would enjoy it very much!

A winner of the 2014 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, 2015 George London Award, 2015 Elizabeth Connell prize for aspiring dramatic sopranos, and recipient of a 2015 Sara Tucker Study Grant, soprano Julie Adams has been praised by the New York Times for possessing a voice that is “rich, full and slightly earthy in an expressive way.” The 2018 – 2019 season sees Ms. Adams’ house debut with Arizona Opera as Anna Sorensen in Silent Night by Kevin Puts, and her house debut with Des Moines Metro Opera as Mimì in La Bohème. Orchestral engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony Number 9 with the Phoenix Symphony conducted by Tito Muñoz, and a concert version of West Side Story with the Oakland Symphony.

https://www.julieadamssoprano.com/

[jserraglio]

On 9/11. Riccardo Muti with, I think, a pickup orchestra and singers unknown, at least unknown to me.

Verdi’s Requiem live from the WWI Redipuglia War Memorial 6.VII.2014.

From the get-go, one of the most devastating perfs of this great work I’ve ever heard. Link is in the ChatBox http://meetinginmusic.blogspot.com

[maestrob]

On 9/11. Riccardo Muti with, I think, a pickup orchestra and singers unknown, at least unknown to me.

Verdi’s Requiem live from the WWI Redipuglia War Memorial 6.VII.2014.

From the get-go, one of the most devastating perfs of this great work I’ve ever heard. Link is in the ChatBox http://meetinginmusic.blogspot.com

Many thanks, jserraglio!

Don't forget the PBS broadcast of the Verdi Requiem from the MET tonight. Nezet-Seguin will conduct Anna Netrebko and a cast of MET stars.

[Rach3]

A rousing live Beethoven “ Choral Fantasy”. Starting about 1:40:00 in here :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000zm9g

Anton Kuerti (piano), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)

Earlier in the broadcast a wonderful live performance by pianist Francesco Piemontesi of Mozart’s PC # 27,K.595, one of the pianist's specialities.

[Wallingford]

Beethoven's First and Seventh (Koussevitzky)

[jserraglio]

Walter Klien/Amadeus Quartet - Mozart Piano Quartets DG

[jserraglio]

Schubert: Trout Quintet. Helmut Roloff & Bayreuth Festival Qrt (Max Kalki, violin, Emil Kessinger, alto, Fritz Sommer, cello, Hermann Schumacher, bass) 1957 Telefunken LP rip.

[jserraglio]

Leonid Kogan - Brahms Violin Concerto in D. RAI Milano, Franco Mannino, cond. April 28, 1972.

Leonid Kogan, Pavel Kogan, Elisabeta Gilels - Vivaldi Concerto for 3 Violins in F, RV 551. RAI Torino, Mannino, cond. May 5, 1967

RAI Broadcasts