Baroque Music of Schmelzer and contemporaries
Barock Chamber MusicMusica Antiqua Köln - Reinhard Goebel (first recording)Schmelzer & Muffat SonatesLondon Baroque - Charles MedlamSchmelzer Sonate a 2, 3, 5, 6Ensemble Aurora & Ensemble...
View ArticleEaster concerts in MÜPA, Budapest
The days around Easter provide opportunities to enrich the music life of a city considerably. Not only in the Netherlands and Flanders, where every second little town stages Bach at least once during...
View ArticleIntense Bruckner
Out of the restricted number of Bruckner's complete Symphonies cycles loom a wealth of sensational accounts of the composer's most grand masterpieces. By focusing on some of the most poignant...
View ArticleH.I.F. Biber and His Contemporaries
H.I.F. Biber - Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes [Sonatas appropriate to the altar or the court]· Jan Willem de Vriend, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam · The Purcell Quartet Biber, Schmelzer...
View ArticleBrooklyn to Berlin: Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and Lee Ranaldo
The string ensemble Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop will play with guitarist Lee Ranaldo, of Sonic Youth, for a one-off performance this evening as part of the Holland Festival . At the Muziekgebouw, and...
View ArticleJames Levine Birthday Celebration
The Met Opera radio channel on Sirius XM (channel 74) will have a special marathon this weekend in honor of James Levine's 70th birthday. Program is after the cut. Of special interest are the...
View ArticleW.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni - Solti
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Don Giovanni (1787) Don Giovanni: Bernd Weikl Il Commendatore: Kurt Moll Donna Anna: Margaret Price Don Ottavio: Suart Burrows Donna Elvira: Sylvia Sass Leporello:...
View ArticleMozart: Die Zauberflöte - Sawallisch
I doubt anyone has not listened to this before.... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 (The Magic Flute) Kurt Moll: Sarastro Peter Schreier: Tamino Edda Moser: The Queen of the...
View ArticleLive aus der Philharmonie Berlin tonight
For those who won't be doing Prom 72 Calleja Verdi Tchaikowsky, here's a good alternative : http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/konzert/2212107/ Musikfest Berlin Live aus der Philharmonie Berlin...
View ArticleCelebrating Shostakovich Birthday • 4 rare symphonic CDs
To celebrate the birthday of the great Shostakovich, I would like to share with you a very rare CD of a wonderful label Russian Disc with one of the composers most remarkable symphony - No.4, performed...
View ArticleOf Darkness and Radiance: Tribute to Shostakovich #1
This week's undisputed star on MIMIC is the great Russian master, as we are offering his magnificent art the space it deserves on our blog on two consecutive tsunami instalments. To start with: the...
View ArticleMarriage in München
Our weekly find from the Mike Richter collection: Le nozze di Figaro from the Bayerische Staatsoper with a geniunely A-list cast. From “Opera from München, Volume 1,” a live recording from July 27/29,...
View ArticleRedressing the Balance
Today at the National Gallery, I revisited the subject of Alma Schindler's marriage to Gustav Mahler. I was appearing alongside pianist and Oxford Lieder Festival artistic director Sholto Kynoch. It's...
View ArticleA great pupil of Gustav Leonhardt: Bob van Asperen plays harpsichord
J. S. Bach - The French Suites J. S. Bach - The Well-tempered Clavier - Book I J. S. Bach - The Well-tempered Clavier - Book II J. S. Bach - Goldberg Variations & Toccatas J. S. Bach - Die Kunst...
View ArticleJean-Marie Leclair l'aîné: Violin Sonatas Op.2
Violin sonata in E minor No.1 Violin sonata in F major No.2 Violin sonata in C major No.3 Violin sonata in A major No.4 Violin sonata in G major No.5 Violin sonata in D major No.8 Adrian Butterfield,...
View ArticleGreat Pianists - Historical Recordings (II): Brendel, Lipatti, Gould, Arrau
Alfred Brendel plays Franz Schubert: Impromptus D 899, D 935, D 783, Moments musicaux D 780 Recorded 1971-1974 2 CDs: 72:43 + 62:17 Dinu Lipatti plays Frédéric Chopin: Waltzes, J. S. Bach: BWV 825,...
View ArticleTschaikowsky - Klavierkonzert No.1 in B flat minor
Cover: Antonucci Publisher: MMS – Musical Masterpiece Society / M-177 (1963) Book Cover Lover: Tschaikowsky – Klavierkonzert nr.1 in b-moll . Wordpress Sphere All the news about classical music and...
View ArticleMahler is not the only food on the table
In that photo taken at the Vienna villa of the artist Carl Moll, probably in 1905, the guests at the al fresco dinner are, left to right, Max Reinhardt, Gustav Mahler, Moll and Hans Pfitzner. In...
View ArticleThank you all for the gifts and the flowers
Perhaps to whet the appetite for the Met’s opening night just one week from now, Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin presents a gala performance of Le nozze di Figaro (with a cast headed by Teresa Stratas)...
View ArticleRecent updates
10/29/14 American Classics +1HQDDL Adams' The Dharma at Big Sur (Josefowicz/Adams) + Kraft's Timpani Concerto 10/27/14 Prokofiev #2 +2CDs 'October Cantata' (Elder '96) and 2nd Violin Sonata + Webern +...
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