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...this recent Sony release, featuring the above-named performers and the NDR SO in Mozart's sublime Sinfonia Concertante? I found it shockingly bad: bloated, vulgar. Some of the tempo exaggerations and ...
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Does anybody have any opinions on Viktoriia Mullova's new CD of the Beethoven/Mendelssohn concerti? It's been available in US only since yesterday and I'm still looking for reviews before taking
I am looking for support in organizing a concert (or event) for a 100 anniversary of the Russian pianist Vladimir Sofronitzki (Sofronitsky)
I have several ideas on that (among thouse performing new
Matthew Tepper, where are you? I've found & ordered the CD of the Bloch that you were looking for.
...s a Tchaikovsky 4/Hamlet disc from the 1950s on Archiphon. I've been working my way through the Scribendum Concert Hall set, a recent acquisition from BRO, and I'm nearly astonished at the high level ...
...tle piano too when he was young, and he promptly sat down and played from memory a minute of a Haydn piano concerto he says he hasn't played in 5 years!!
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Deepak Subburam...
...ow at p and bright at f, with resonable graduation. Over the last year (and especially after a rather LOUD concert on it just recently, not by me), it seems uniformly bright, even at pp, especially in...
...nos
The best pianos have varied over the years. 'Best' is understood as leading in quality, prestige and concert use. The ending dates usually denote a lessening of each of these qualities, but it i...
...e middle C is tuned to G according to my electronic tuner. I have heard that old pianos cannot be tuned to concert pitch as strings can break easily. Is this correct?
Any advice please...
...never into this practice.
There was also another comment that one writer made with regards to Yamaha CF3 concert grands not being you r 'off the shelf Yamaha' What's different about this and the C7 ...
Can anyone help me get a copy of Koch 7081 - the Jongen Concerto for Woodwind Quintet?
...eacher DID say that to me. Thanks for the idea.
Of course, I probably won't get to use that, because the concert is in one week. He's also really angry at the band and saying we aren't practicing en...
...istinct from the C series. They are made in the same factory section(in the Yamaha factory)as the CIII(the concert grands). And they seem to have a greater depth or roundness to the tone, though the a...
Tell us about some favorite encores you've heard in a live concert. Please give the name of the pianist also.
Here are a few of the thousands I've heard that I can remember right now:
1. Cherkassy
I recently aquired a 2001 release of the Western World Premiere recording of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.2 with Rostropovich as soloist and Colin Davis as conductor. The date is October 5th, 19
...bc.co.uk/radio3/ and click on 'listen live'
2.7., 20.05, HR 2, Igor Kamenz plays Tchaikovsky's 2nd piano concerto (RSO Saarbruecken; 22.6.)
* 3.7., 20.00, RTSI Rete Due, Concert of the 1st+2nd pri...
...cycle has shown up.
In the end, it was not really 'long awaited', since both the Emperor and the G major concerto had circulated on CD for some time. Years, in fact. And although we are assured that...
I use 'Concerto' loosely to cover any substantial Concertante piece featuring the cello. We've covered the Baltic country Concerti in the 'Russian/Soviet' thread, so by 'Scandinavian' I mean works ori
...s (which have taken over a lot of the Arte Nova catalogue) were publishing the Beethoven 3rd and 5th piano concerti with Afanassiev as soloist. The orchestra is the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, and c...
... and said, ' Hm, I can imagine the art-damaged people who would would show up to a Schoenberg on Schoenhut concert.'
Lisa Weller, RPT Los Alamitos, CA...
Guitarists for KenLane's 'Americana'Aug 13thconcert.
Kenneth Lane seeks guitarists for 'Americana,' Aug 13th, a two hour presentation of his own, not related to the Boonton Monthly Music Festivals.
...urtesy of the buyer for the Hicksville NY Public Library we all can enjoy it.
It is from a Young Peoples Concert of Nov 12, 1960. This Library also has many of the YPC videos but I don't think this ...
...at the Salzburg Festival from 1964 to 1979. Three discs of the four-CD set are in stereo, including a 1972 concert of Mozart and Bruckner sacred works celebrating 50 years of Vienna Philharmonic and V...
I've long had a disc of the three Mozart concerti (clarinet, oboe and bassoon) with Bohm conducting. I recently heard a disc of the Clarinet Concerto with Michael Collins (?) on clarinet and Pletnev c
Did any other posters attend Sawallisch's final concert as the Philly MD Saturday evening? He has been ill (a blood-pressure problem that is causing extreme fatigue) in recent weeks, but came back to
...ahia hasn't done any recent recordings to equal his Goldberg Variations. I couldn't listen to his Keyboard Concertos and how *he* thinks they should be played... Having said that, I haven't listened t...
Being a sound purist, I have a thing about plastic heads. So next time you are at a concert, please take a look on stage and see if the Tymps have skins or plastic heads and report back. Thanks in adv
...mpered Clavier - Book I' and the 'Goldberg Variations;' Handel's 'Suites for Keyboard;' and Mozart's Piano Concertos 9, 17, and 20.
I'm interested in hearing opinions of those who know these, or oth...
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A fellow student of my nephew owns a concert grand with the name Horstmann (end 18th cent. begin 19th ). She claims that there are only two such pianos in the world and the other one is located
Speaking of CPE & concerti, I once saw a recording of CPE's arrangement of his father's famous D Minor concerto and made the horrible mistake of not buying it on the spot. The CD was a recording of bo
...d Ballade, and Polonises, etc., as well as A Schubert recital(set of Impromptus), and also, Mozart's Piano concerti nos.24 & 26, with Sir Georg Solti and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, all date from 198...
My favourites are Sviatoslav Richter (Emi), Guiomar Novaes (Vox) and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Arkadia). But now you have made me curious about Grainger.
Sandro Bisotti
I received three Altus CDs yesterday with Kubelik conducting the BRSO in live concerts from Japan
ALT-008 Osaka, 12-13.iv.1965
Wagner: Prelude to Meistersinger Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Dvora
...assical recordings. So far I have found that I really enjoy the following works:
Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto Beethoven's Piano Sonatas - Moonlight, Waldstein & Pathetique Holst - The Planets - ...
The only hole in my collection of Mozart piano concertos is 11-13. There are a few sets of 11-13: Barenboim & BPO, Soldan & Capella Istropolitana, and Haimovsky & Moscow Chamber Ensemble. The archives
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