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... nook and cranny of our lives sooner or later, and not only banks and financial institutions will suffer but Orchestras and opera houses will have to bare the consequences as well, down sizing and dow...
...tion to my acoustic piano, and would really like to learn to use it. I would especially like to learn how to orchestrate with it. I would like a teacher that is experienced in those kinds of things. 3...
...ny event)? Does anyone else share my sense that material like this is being overlooked by our major symphony orchestras as 'too light' for their subscription series?...
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Recorded in Winnipeg 1949 Rare 6 Record Set 33 1/3 Vancouver Symphony Orch.
Pieces for Cello & Orchestra originating in the countries of Portugal (P), Spain (S), and Italy (I),- but also Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, etc., if anyone knows of any.
Antonio Vivaldi
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We know from documentary evidence (anecdotal, I believe) that the latter was Beethoven's attitude to orchestras and string quartets. But what do you think about Chopin? For what it's worth, I'...
...e tape originals have dates on them. Can anyone give me an idea of when they come from?
Dohnanyi-Cleveland Orchestra - Ligeti: Atmospheres; Wagner: LOHENGRIN - Prelude to Act I; Bruckner: Symphony N...
... 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 1980s. I do not have any hopes that Decca will release t...
...ally in the first and third movements, in the tutti passages where the piano has to make a stand against the orchestra, he produced an incredibly powerful sound, something I had only heard Nelson Frei...
...s 3rd symphony, got me thinking about another sort of blocked communication. The JVC CD makes clear a lot of orchestral details that are inaudible in earlier releases. I had no inkling that one or ano...
...91 by Moszkowski. I have yet to hear a piece by MM that I've never liked. Utterly charming music. How is his orchestral music?
For those who want to know Miss Budiardjo plays a Kawai EX2186001....
...ing of this Rossini opera, with an English translation by Jeremy Sams. David Parry conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra. Cast includes Jeremy White, Susan Bickley, Barry Banks, Majella Cullagh, and Nin...
... close to this time as well??
also - on the BayCities disc - with no dates given:
Gould - Spirituals for Orchestra - Susskind/LSO and
Gould - Formations - Gould/Knightsbridge Symphonic Band
do...
...Rosina Llevinne Polonaises: Alfred Brendel Scherzi: Jeanne Marie Darre ATM CD-1187
Vivaldi: Four Seasons & Orchestral Masterpieces Antonio Janigro [cond], I Solisti di Zagreb ATM CD-1188
Canteloub...
After Sir Adrian Boult was abruptly booted out of the BBC Symphony Orchestra upon reaching the 'official' retiring age (something which infuriated Lord Reith who wrote several letters of protest) he,
From the Craven Herald, a small weekly newspaper in the Yorkshire dales, England............
WHEN orchestra directors hit a major snag in their plans to replicate the music of the Queen's Coronation
...ery superficial inspection, appear far more incisive and a bit more aggressive than the BPO of the past. The orchestra sound is lean and not at all like the BPO early in Abbado's tenure (when it was s...
...of the broadcast on BBC R3 made early this morning of Klemperer conducting Bruckner 4 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1947.
The viola theme in the second movement is given by a solo instrument n...
As before, anything for Cello & Orchestra originating in these countries.
C.P.E. Bach - 1750, 1751, 1753 (Concertos) (many) Georg Christoph Wagenseil - 1752 & 1763 (Concertos) (Thorofon) Franz Josep
The Louisville Orchestra as of June 10 is filing for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. They are not in danger of immediate demise but the New Dimensions series of three annual contemporary music
... 2 and have been hugely disappointed after having read the review on ClassicsToday. Thomas Fey uses a modern orchestra but period brass and timpani. As a result both the brass and timpani are overemph...
... 1955 and a possible 1955 Aldeburgh recording of Dennis Brain in Haydn Horn Concerto No.2 (the conductor and orchestra can't be identified) and wonder of the Searle Aubade premiere might also have bee...
...ental fee of $80 an hour. Possibly the museum's last booking fell into the latter category: a Romanian Gypsy orchestra that performed on Saturday.
Mr. Detrich had planned a formal opening for Sept. ...
...kner: Symphony No. 5
SC002 – Brahms Four Symphonies with Munich Phil. (1974/5) (Probably with some other orchestral pieces)
SC001 - with Zurich Tone Halle Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (19...
...Norfolk Rhapsody No.1. In the Fen Country. Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'. Concerto Grosso. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd (conductor). Naxos 8.555867. (60' 45').
'Returning to his British r...
...etc.
My teacher goes on about how piano transcriptions served an historical purpose, i.e. they made making orchestral scores much more widely known in the 19th century before radio and recording tec...
I include pieces for Cello & Orchestra originating in the countries of both North and South America.
Edward MacDowell - ?(1860-1908)('Romanze') (RCA, Naxos) Victor Herbert - 1885(Concerto No.1), 189
.... The Athalie score has a fine overture and choral numbers and, of course, the War March of the Priests. The orchestration has harp and prominent brass, unusual for Mendelssohn.
Mendelssohn and frie...
...xhibition (Orch) Tchaikovsky: Piano Cto 1 Prokofiev: Piano Son 3 EMI CLSSICS DVD 90125
(Sorry, most of the orchestras on the above DVDs are unidentified by EMI)
Gene Frazier Tower Records Classica...
...assume the tempi, dynamics, etc. from Stokowski are somewhat consistent; what I'm more concerned with is the orchestra's performance and specifically the sound of the brass in the big climaxes. Also I...
... 'realisations' to one side) does everyone rate highest?
I like Bernstein's live Vienna version on DG (the orchestral 'sigh' after the famous outburst of brazen dissonance is particularly memorable)...
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Did he express any opinion of the obscure Italian conductor who donated his time for that orchestra's first concerts?
Seriously, thanks for this essay, and in particular for that ...
Does anyone know of this recording with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra? I can't find the CD anywhere. I got it off kazaa orginally. Also, did he record any other LvB symphonies. Personally, I think
...nary as his 1/2: exuberant, joyful performances that have you practically dancing along. I've never heard an orchestra play as well at fast tempi as the Heidelberg Symphony. For those allergic to HIP ...
How to Kill Orchestras By BERNARD HOLLAND
'I wish I could interest the Environmental Protection Agency in looking into the symphony managers and conductors
...ximate date of a broadcast performance of the Bruckner 5th with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and the Philadelphia Orchestra? My best guess is around 1981-82, but would be far happier to be certain. It was ...
Your Band got a nice mention on *West Wing* this week
...bout this with the guy at the shop. Which is the more pianist-demanding Brahms piano concerto? Which is more orchestral and less...
...lts when I type it in) and even Naxos's catalogue does not list it. It is Ondrej Lenard and the CSR Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) playing Tchaikovsky's Francesca di Rimini and Pathétique symphony. ...
...ed to hear who the performers were. Turns out it was conducted by Frederick Stock, with the Chicago symphony orchestra in 1940.
The NPR announcer also said that Stock played the violin in this piece...
...ncerto
Run to your next classical CD store to buy Rachel Barton's CD, playing it with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar on Cedille.
A superb soloist, very sensitive, excell...
...; 2 it isn't currently available when we've all got the coupling with Richter's Rach 2; 3 it's with the same orchestra (the BPO) as the rest of the box, rather than the VSO.
Strange...they might eve...
...or recording of Tchiakovsky's First Conc. performed by V.C and conducted Kiril Kondrashin with the RCA V. S. Orchestra; is this said to be better than his life performance at the Intl. Tchiakovsky.Com...
...n - Piano Concerto 3rd mvt (1959) Grieg - PC 1st mvt (1962
All with Donald Voorhees and the Bell Telephone Orchestra (he's no Reiner)
It's a good chance to see most of these pianists in their prim...
...rombone Neil Dibiasi Tuba Joseph Novotny
Anybody still alive from this list????
One more concert and the orchestra was disbanded. One of the most dispicable and anti-musical happenings of the 20th...
...yed two works on this Albany issue: Sinfonietta II (1990) and Concerto No. 1 for Piano(Michael Boriskin) and Orchestra (1990). The Sinfonietta is a witty piece. Two delightful scherzi with a beautiful...
With my stringorchestra (amateurs) I want to study a piece by Mozart to get acquainted with hs elegant style. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik however and his Divertimenti KV137 etc. are to difficult for us, be
...and posting about Brian. There's lots of stuff that is yet to be recorded (e.g. cello concerto, concerto for orchestra). It's frustrating that it's not....
...rely miss the sparseness and asceticism that Dennis Russell Davies, in his version with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on Pro Arte, conveyed so beautifully. It all sounds so wholesome in Sinlcair's re...
...ia or New York area posters have caught any or all of Sawallisch's live Schumann cycle with the Philadelphia Orchestra this season. I've now seen him in symphonies 1, 3 and 4. For the most part, the p...
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