I read the NYT review last night. Sounds interesting, indeed, especially of her being "afraid" of performing on stage and all.

Yes. She's especially afraid she says of performing solo. She prefers to do concertos or chamber music on stage with people she knows and feels comfortable with. But she's only afraid before she walks out on stage. Once she starts playing she feels ok.

Here's a trailer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9bI-b2L4M

Thanks for the link. What was she playing during the last moments of that video?

Libertango from Piazzolla in an arrangement from Eduardo Hubert. This was rehearsal footage that's in the movie proper. But the DVD comes with 38 minutes of extras and among those there's an in concert performance of this piece included.

just arrived in the mail:

Ooh, I love Josquin!

Went to barnes and nobles today- best I could find!!! lots of argerich :P







That was FOUR DOLLARS!!! I don't have planets yet so it was OK.


I know you can't see that one, but that's Zubin Mehta conducting NY philharmonic in the Mahler's 2nd symphony "Resurrection" and isreali philaharmonic in Mahler's 5th (it's a 2 in one disc)

Mehta's Resurrection is one of the premier's so good choice on that.

Can't believe you got some of that stuff for so cheap! I go to B&N and they overprice stuff so much. I could buy CD's on iTunes for 5 dollars cheaper :S

I prefer his music

Sorry, but seriously, if you do, you might consider picking up this disc, it is not quite a recent recordingq (then again, that's why the CD is offerd at a budgteprice and it's not like it's a technically completely outdated take), and what fine voices!

and



Lepo Sumera's symphonies nr 5 and 6 (and other works on the CD's).

(And a jazz CD, but that's not for this forum, right )

I'm excited to listen to this. I'm already hearing the interview. Great stuff, memories.

Exquisite!

My first Rautavaara CD! Very interesting music...

Placed an order for these earlier today, but I don't expect them to reach me for at least three weeks.

Gustav Leonhardt Jubilee Edition (80th Anniversary box set)

A 15-CD box set containing works by Bach, Couperin, Scarlatti, Telemann, and many more Baroque composers, featuring Leonhardt as harpsichordist, organist, and as conductor.

Also, The Art of Fugue, played by the Emerson String Quartet.

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I just picked up a 2002 rerelease of a 1991 recording of Xaver Scharwenka piano pieces.



Allmusic says he has "little depth," but it's pleasant enough. On first listen it doesn't seem as bombastic as many romantic piano works to my ears. I am truly enjoying the Sonata No. 1 in C#minor. I wonder what would posses him to write a sonata in that key. Sadly I had never heard of this composer until I spotted this CD. I need to come up for air out of Beethoven's music more often.