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Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostThank you ams - I should have said 'After Berlin I hope he will take on a British orchestra in need of rebuilding and developing in the way he worked with the CBSO.'
But does he want an American orchestra? Or does he want an opera house? So much will depend on his children and his marriage, I imagine and so the hope & wishes of two (relatively) old blokes don't amount to a hill o' beans
Or might he take on the El Sistema movement in UK (pace MrGG), taking it to the next level? Enough already!
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Kicking off tomorrow's show:
WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg – Prelude; Siegfried – Idyll; Gotterdammerung - Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Gotterdammerung - Siegfried's Funeral March; Gotterdammerung - Immolation scene
Petra Lang (soprano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
CHANNEL CCSSA32713 (Hybrid SACD)
Fischer's Mahler with the Budapest Festival Orchestra has often been revelatory (and always stunningly recorded) and this Wagner disc has already scored some good reviews in the broadsheets. A conductor who always brings something new out of a work. Who knows - perhaps the Berlin Phil. will come knocking?It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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On Saturday 15 June 2013 at 10.30 Mark Padmore talks to Andrew about Decca's reissue of recordings of Benjamin Britten - presumably this means the £180 box of everything
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostOn Saturday 15 June 2013 at 10.30 Mark Padmore talks to Andrew about Decca's reissue of recordings of Benjamin Britten - presumably this means the £180 box of everything
start savingIt loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Could have been forgiven for thinking I had stumbled into an edition of Saturday Morning Kitchen yesterday as AMG's guest, Anna Picard, brought out a whole stockpot of gastronomic metaphors: pieces were described as being like "limes" (no, I've no idea either!) or "toffee flavoured" string writing (your guess is as good....etc). Still the music sounded intriguing.
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I see that, according to the CD Review Newsletter, Harriet Smith will be reviewing a selection of recent violin sonatas and cantatas (sic) this morning. I must confess that the combination of solo violin and cantata is a new one to me.
For those of us unable to listen live, I hope that the iplayer version will be available this week. I particularly regret missing the programme two weeks' ago in which one had the chance to "roadtest" Christian Blackshaw's Mozart against more authentic fortepianists. Maybe there is a listener out there who can advise how Mahan Estafani compared the respective performances?
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostI particularly regret missing the programme two weeks' ago in which one had the chance to "roadtest" Christian Blackshaw's Mozart against more authentic fortepianists. Maybe there is a listener out there who can advise how Mahan Estafani compared the respective performances?
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostI see that, according to the CD Review Newsletter, Harriet Smith will be reviewing a selection of recent violin sonatas and cantatas (sic) this morning. I must confess that the combination of solo violin and cantata is a new one to me.
STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 63
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
NAIVE V5352 (CD)
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