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German conductor and composer (1900-1973)
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2020-09-19 23:00:00
Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Bach - Franck - Mozart - Scriabin - Beethoven, Schumann and Prokofiev (plus Howard Blake)
J. S. BachConcerto in D minorChopinPiano Concerto No. 2London SODavid ZinmanDecca 1965digital download, coverLudwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No. 1Six Bagatelles op, 126Wiener PhilharmonikerZubin MehtaDecca 1984 Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4Wiener PhilharmonikerZubin MehtaDecca 1984Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No. 3Wiener PhilharmonikerZubin MehtaDecca 1984Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No. 5Wiener PhilharmonikerZubin MehtaDecca 1984Alexander ScriabinPiano Sonatas Nos 1, 6 and 8Four Pieces op, 51Decca 1987Alexander ScriabinPiano Sonatas Nos. 3, 4,5 and 9Decca 1975Alexander ScriabinPiano Sonatas Nos. 2,7 and 10Piano Pieces opp. 32, 56 and 73Decca 1978Bela BartokPiano Concertos 2 and 3London POSir Georg SoltiDecca 1980 Sergei ProkofievPiano Transcriptions fromRomeo and JulietCinderellaWar and PeaceThe Love of three OrangesDecca 1996Sergei ProkofievPiano Sonata No. 7Piano Sonata No. 8Two pieces […]
2019-09-13 08:37:00
Schoenberg at 145: selected works and recordings on his birthday
Charlie Chaplin, Gertrud and Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1935(Photographer: Max Munn Autrey) Arnold Schoenberg was the twentieth century’s most violently controversial composer; he remains so for us. Was he its greatest? Perhaps, perhaps not: there will always be several other deserving pretenders to the title; it is scarcely a title worth bothering about. Is his music the most performed, the most listened to? Certainly not. Indeed part of his ‘greatness’, certainly of his controversy, lies in confrontation with a world that often will not listen, sometimes does not even know. Schoenberg’s is in many ways a tragic story that yet awaits its true catharsis. Like Beethoven, the degree of Schoenberg’s influence dwarfs that of any other twentieth-century composer, Stravinsky included. The latter’s Rite of Spring, Les Noces, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, and so on undoubtedly changed the face of twentieth-century music; yet Schoenberg’s break with the tonal universe […]
2019-07-18 05:09:00
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" (CD review)
Also, An Elizabethan Suite. Sir John Barbirolli, BBC Symphony Orchestra. Dutton Laboratories CDSJB 1008.I did not get to hear this recording when EMI first released it in 1967, and by the time I heard good news about it in the mid seventies, the company was no longer issuing it. Then, Dutton Labs remastered it in 1997, and I finally got to hear it. I have to admit it is seldom I am so completely taken by a performance that I am willing to recommend it as a top choice, but after several listening sessions with Sir John Barbirolli's Beethoven Third, I am inclined to do so. Seldom do I remember just when, where, or how I first learned about a particular recording. Most of the time, it's something a record company has sent me for review. But when something like Barbirolli's BBC recording of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony found its way […]
2018-07-26 05:37:00
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" (CD review)
George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus. Sony SMK 60987.With this release from the late Nineties, Sony presented a line of low-priced classical reissues in conjunction with National Public Radio's "Performance Today." The series was called "Milestones of the Millennium," and, at least initially, it consisted mainly of collections of short works built around a central theme: "The Renaissance in Music," "Bach: The Brook and the Wellspring," that sort of thing. The first complete work Sony issued in the line was this Beethoven Ninth, and they couldn't have chosen a better representative. Hungarian-born conductor George Szell (1897-1970) recorded this Ninth for CBS at Severance Hall, Cleveland in 1961, and as such I missed it back then. Well, I was in high school at the time, so what can I say? By the time CBS re-released it on vinyl, I had come to find many CBS LPs sounded too bright, too limited […]
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