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Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No.2 in G major, op.44 (original version) [46'45]04 Piano Concerto No.3 in E-flat major, op.75 [16'07]Peter Donohoe- piano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf BarshaiEMI CDC749940-2 [recorded August 1986 and July & August 1987; issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UKRecording engineers: Mike Clements and Mike Hatch; Producer: Andrew KeenerPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:01 - 02 Concert Fantasia op.56 [27'52]03 - 05 Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, op.23 [36'03]Peter Donohoe- piano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf BarshaiEMI CDC749939-2 [recorded July & August 1989 and July 1988; issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UKRecording engineers: Mike Clements and Mike Hatch; Producer: Andrew KeenerRachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Borodin:01 Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini, op.43 ^ [23'33]02 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Waltz from 'Swan Lake, Act 1' [7'37]03 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: […]
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Alban Berg, Part III, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: February 5, 2024. Alban Berg, Part III, Lulu. Frank Wedekind was a famous (and controversial) German playwright. Among his more famous plays were two, Earth Spirit, written in 1895, and Pandora's Box, from 1904, usually paired together and called Lulu plays, after the name of the protagonist. For a while, the plays were banned for presumed obscenity. Berg saw the plays in the early 1900s in Berlin, with Wedekind himself playing Jack the Ripper in Pandora's Box. He was much taken by the plays, and some quarter century later, following the success of his first opera, Wozzeck, decided to write another one, based on Wedekind’s plays. The storyline of the plays is convoluted: Lulu, an impoverished girl, is saved by a rich publisher, Dr. Schön, from life on the streets. Schön brings her up and makes her his lover. Later, he marries Lulu off to […]
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