This week’s podcast, closing out the second quarter of 2020, is one more in our series dedicated to Mozart’s piano concertos in sets of three, and follows a pattern we used in 2015 with a pair of pianists who each get one solo concerto and combine in a double concerto. Unlike other montages in this series, with the benefit of about 7 of these if we include three Tuesday playlists from a Time Life compilation, we are considering three concerti we’ve programmed at least once in 0 Likes ...
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This week’s Vinyl’s Revenge – the last for the next few months as we embark into our summer schedule – shares an early recording by Lorin Maazel of two Mendelssohn symphonies. Maazel’s conducting roots were as a wunderkind conductor. At the age of 13, Lorin Maazel took the podium at a pension fund concert at Public Hall in Cleveland on March 14, 1943. He conducted a selection of pieces that included the overture from Wagner’s opera Rienzi and Schubert’s “Unfinished” symphony. 0 Likes ...
For this month’s contribution to our #Beethoven2020 series, as promised last month, we continue with some piano works, but with a twist… You will hear all of Beethoven’s nine symphonies several times over in the course of this anniversary year – including symphonies 1 and 3 so far in this series. Beethoven himself subtly introduced symphony number 2 into the series a few months ago as a transcription for piano trio. In the course of the next two installments, we will focus on the 0 Likes ...
This week’s edition of Vinyl’s revenge features a coupling of the two Liszt piano concertos featuring American pianist Ivan Davis (1932-2018). As a teenager, Franz Liszt created at least two virtuosic concertos for piano and orchestra, scores which are now lost. The two numbered concertos were composed during the 1830's when Liszt’s career as a young, travelling virtuoso was at its height. Liszt revised them extensively before letting them be published some 25 years after their 0 Likes ...
Happy birthday to Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson! (May 17, 1918 - December 25, 2005) Attachment 136097 Documentary: https://youtu.be/XYTNHW60uJw As Turandot (complete opera): https://youtu.be/IFtwn00ufOc As Isolde (opera with a cut I believe): https://youtu.be/McoRns-aWQQ As Isolde (with Vickers): https://youtu.be/krGBq7zk0-I Fragmented performance 2 Likes Rogerx, Allegro Con Brio liked this post ...
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