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...rt of Mozart and Bruckner sacred works celebrating 50 years of Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Choir performances at the Salzburg Festival. Other works include the Bruckner Fifth Symphony, ...
...st times to facilitate the best publicity coverage. The Boonton Monthly Music Festivals is arranging for live performances of many music formats and in languages chosen by the performers. The on-goi...
...ht infringement. Capitol challenged Naxos' distribution of historic recordings dating from the 1930's featuring performances by Yehudi Menuhin, Edwin Fisher and Pablo Casals. Capitol claimed to be the...
There are many companies that sell pirate recordings of live
I want to get a portable minidisc recorder to record live piano performances, both of myself practicing and my students performing. All the reviews I've read so far are focused mainly on the recorde
... should be grateful enough for the three (er, 2 and 7/8) audio tracks. They could have cut them out, too. The performances, on first, very superficial inspection, appear far more incisive and a bit ...
... Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu ('The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus,' Can others here suggest cd performances of these and other key C. P. E. Bach pieces. Thanks very much. bill carroll...
On PBS 'Great Performances' this evening I saw an excellent rendition of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 by Pierre Boulez and the Berlin Philharmonic with the Portuguese virtuoso, Maria Pires, at piano
...hasized, while the strings are lost in the background. It might sound like an exaggeration but to my ears these performances sound like concerti for brass, timpani and orchestra rather than symphonies...
...scs. It is likely they were produced for the composer's private collection and most probably they are the first performances on 28 January 1955. I am interested in tracking down recordings made at A...
... the Beethoven Violin Sonatas on ASV a year or more ago. I got them used and they weren't recent pressings. The performances were recorded and issued in 1989 and I suspect these are 1989 pressings. I ...
...d. A rare find. Who on earth takes this crap seriously? The Judd-RVW disc in fact presents uniformly mediocre performances of pieces of which there are fine, even great ones in abundance. For starte...
...sh symphony. Good music and sound. Butt conducts Saint Saens - Symphony #2, Suite Algerienne, Phaeton. Lively performances and excellent sound....
...h: it's Brahms' PC1. Seems like I've heard that work several hundred times in the past 50 years, many excellent performances among them. Makes me wonder: Is there any possibility at all that there'l...
Archiphon has just released Rudolf Kolisch/Gunnar Johansen performances of Beethoven Sonatas 5-10. The 2CD set is ARC-130/131. The performances are from recitals in Madison, Wisconsin in the 1960's. T
...ler on the $3.99 wall. I just got his Beethoven 4/6, and they're as extraordinary as his 1/2: exuberant, joyful performances that have you practically dancing along. I've never heard an orchestra play...
For 'the soloists in the performances of the 9th' please read 'the soloists in the performances of the 8th.' -david gable
Been listening to this 8CD box, not sure I like too many of the performances, although the 1964 Pathetique is a pretty good performance of a work I don't particularly like. The late symphonies are dif
...mportant releases- and I'm very sorry that he never was able to finish his cycle of Piston symhonies. His Perle performances are top-notch. Orchestral Works: Sinfonietta II, Concerto no. 1 for Piano a...
The reissue in France on a BMG twofer of various Argerich performances originally recorded by Ricordi has caused me to listen again to La Martha's Fantasy in C. A disappointment. I had forgotten, fo
...hey cheap enough (media wise) to stay in print perpetually. Why doesn't the HBS (acquire the rights to) sell HB performances? Certainly not selling them at all must be less profitable to the original ...
...ather large claim, but since I can't hear for myself before I buy, can anyone here affirm the worthiness of the performances? And/or compare them to any competition? Should I run out now and buy? Or s...
...Hess Guiomar Novaes Solomon Wilhelm Backhaus These pianists were, in the 30s and 40s, all capable of stunning performances of the last two Beethoven concerti, and each with a slightly different appr...
...with the Philadelphia Orchestra this season. I've now seen him in symphonies 1, 3 and 4. For the most part, the performances have been very competitive, or in some instances better than, his recorded ...
...rks, but there seems to exist no recording of that. Lougansky also seems to play Medtner. Did anyone hear his performances? Are they any good? Many thanks in advance, Herman Jurjus...
...ounds like an orchestra in a hall-compare that to Lenny's NY Phil Records-multimiked disasters And now to the performances This is Beethoven stripped of all sentimentality and excesses. The late R...
... conducting Stravinsky 'Les Noces'. There's a seriously good Ansermet Stravinsky box, which contains some great performances - his Renard is one of my favourites. You might like Stravinsky's vocal wor...
...ding for #2 is Gutierrez/Jarvi on Chandos; for #3, Prokofiev/Coppola on Naxos or Pearl. The better of the two performances on this disc is definitely the Second Concerto, which replaces the Gutierre...
I'm looking for recommendations for videos (or DVDs) which are more than recorded performances, which have some accompanying narrative or instructive commentary which illuminates the music or the musi
...ay that Rudolf Serkin was one of the better pianists of the 20th century. One web review I read stated that his performances after he reached 80 (somewhere near 1983) showed his age. All of his digita...
...eleases. I never compared them to my tapes from the NE Brown archive. I was so happy just to hear these musical performances. Was it the source tapes or the eq? And regarding another thread 4)Who is...
...ance listed. A few items have eluded me and I would be very grateful if someone could lead me to copies of this performances: Symphony # 4 Asahina Honolulu Sym. 3/1985 Asahina Club (Private) CD B306...
...s a good way of acquiring material that has been difficult to find in the past. Also I'll like to know how this performances compare to others by the same conductor. regards, Alfredo E. Rivas...
...s, in anticipation of his appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic this coming weekend at Carnegie Hall. (Three performances: Berg with G. Kremer and Bruckner 4, Beethoven 6 and J. Strauss, then Schub...
...hosen from the original master tapes preserved in Deutches Rundfunkarchiv presents the young Celibidarches best performances with BPO during his first three seasons. Extensive liner notes in German an...

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