Classical music: Remembering The Modest Maestro. English conductor Sir...
By Jacob Stockinger He played in a string quartet and a symphony orchestra before founding and directing a chamber orchestra that rose to the top ranks of the music world. Then he became a world-famous...
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What matters most? Commercial success or artistic merit? To win an Echo Klassik Award, both are needed. From Sol Gabetta to Alfred Brendel, the awards gala ...via Google News USA All the news about...
View ArticleThe Comforts of Victor Rosenbaum
Nobody today plays the great Romantic classics in the spellbindingly smooth-edged yet serious manner of Victor Rosenbaum. At Jordan Hall Monday evening, celebrating his upcoming 50th anniversary at...
View ArticleAh, Those Merry Days Of Dadaism
Alfred Brendel (yes, the pianist): “Has there ever been a major avant-garde movement that was so closely tied to laughter and the grotesque? Laughter was the Dadaists’ favorite instrument …...
View ArticleAlfred Brendel is going Dada
The retired pianist, now 85, is writing arts criticism for New York Review of Books. Chalenging stuff, as you’d expect. Sample: …as a child, I had unwittingly encountered Dada in its funniest form. At...
View ArticleA Committed Montero Triumphs
After hearing Gabriela Montero Monday afternoon in Sanders Theater, I went home, and before my mystical feelings passed, sat down to play better piano than I had any right to expect. Montero had played...
View ArticleSay, you cover a lot of ground yourself
Born on this day in 1889 actress Margaret Dumont. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3FZ_jtDMVg Happy 85th birthday contralto Lauris Elms. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKcZrIFV83I Happy 73rd birthday dramatic...
View ArticleClassical music spurned for rock career - This Is Wiltshire
Prog rock singer/songwriter, Doris Brendel, hits the delete and block button whenever she sees a social media message saying: Women can't do rock! Despite the fact she grew up in an all classical music...
View ArticleClassical music spurned for rock career (From Swindon Advertiser) - Swindon...
Prog rock singer/songwriter, Doris Brendel, hits the delete and block button whenever she sees a social media message saying: Women can't do…via Google News UK All the news about classical music and...
View ArticleClassical music spurned for rock career - Swindon Advertiser
Prog rock singer/songwriter, Doris Brendel, hits the delete and block button whenever she sees a social media message saying: Women can't do rock! Despite the fact she grew up in an all classical music...
View ArticleClassical music spurned for rock career - Swindon Advertiser
Prog rock singer/songwriter, Doris Brendel, hits the delete and block button whenever she sees a social media message saying: Women can't do rock! Despite the fact she grew up in an all classical music...
View ArticleClassical music spurned for rock career - Swindon Advertiser
Prog rock singer/songwriter, Doris Brendel, hits the delete and block button whenever she sees a social media message saying: Women can't do rock! Despite the fact she grew up in an all classical music...
View ArticleClassical music spurned for rock career
Prog rock singer/songwriter, Doris Brendel, hits the delete and block button whenever she sees a social media message saying: Women can't do rock! Despite the fact she grew up in an all classical music...
View ArticleRecent updates to previously posted music
11/4/16 Mahler Lieder +1CD Fischer-Dieskau's Gesellen & Kindertoten + Wolf's Lieder in the 50s (a rip by Corrado D.) 11/4/16 Wintery Romantics +1CD Dvorak Cello Concerto & Tchaikovsky's Rococo'...
View ArticleJames Levine Conducts Berlioz
I guess the first time I heard Maestro James Levine conduct was watching a DVD of the Three Tenors (Pavarotti, Domingo, and Carreras) in Paris, as well as Fantasia 2000. Since then, I’ve gotten to see...
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11/11/16 The Odd Couple +1CD Mozart Concerto No. 13 + Beethoven's 'Eroica' by Barenboim in Versailles (1997) 11/11/16 The Odd Couple #2 +1CD Mozart's Requiem by Riccardo Muti in Berlin (1987) 11/8/16...
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11/15/16 Prokofiev #1 +1CD Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 with Gary Graffman & George Szell in Cleveland (1966) 11/15/16 In the Name of Music +1CD Orff's Carmina Burana by Richard Hickox in London (1987)...
View ArticleCello Daddy’s children are marking his 100th
It was Jacqueline du Pre who called William Pleeth her Cello Daddy. William died in London in 1999. Next Sunday, surviving students will convene for a centenary symposium and concert. Just look at...
View ArticleRecent updates to previously posted music
11/18/16 Musique Française #1 +1 CD Ravel Tombeau, Fauré Masques & Pavane by the Orpheus Chamber Orch. (1995) 11/18/16 Musique Française #3 +1CD set Ravel's piano music by Jacques Rouvier (1974)...
View ArticleDec.11, Adrian Brendel Performs in London
Make your plans now to attend the concert on December 11th by cellist Adrian Brendel. Adrian Brendel And Aleksandar Madzar at Wigmore Hall Date: 11 December 2016 The cellist and the pianist will...
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