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Not-shabby #Weidringer[TM] at the Musikverein Wien for Argerich, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Beethoven!

Even more Horns & Fire #Weidringer[TM] for the Fritz Lang's Nibelungs w/ soundtrack courtesy ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - RSO Wien at the Wiener Konzerthaus w/ Frank Strobel

Horns & Fire #Weidringer[TM] for the Fritz Lng's Nibelungs w/ soundtrack courtesy ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - RSO Wien

ZZ-#Weidringer for the new Wozzeck at the Opera Graz.

Rezension zum Bild:
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viennasymphony, AKobekina, Gulda & Haydn: A Feast for the Ears

#morninglistening to beautiful #Arabella - with Solti and LisaDellaCasa, Gueden, Dermota, London and @viennaphilharmonic, which doesn't hurt. It's among the last Strauss operas to bid me access but not necessarily due to faults of its own.

Amzn: amzn.to/3MnoDrM

#RichardStrauss #Opera

Also, he really hoped to start something in that town -- and all he got was smiles and nodding heads and zero support, so he soured on the town as soon as he discovered its inhabitants true character. :-)

One day, I'll have to order from Cult Pens. Or maybe I'm thinking of Pure Pens... because of their inks.

You know what... it turned out to be one of the best concert of the year, so far! AND FINALLY: Haydn in the right spot! And, go figure, played like that's where he belongs!

#HaydnCuresAllProblems

1984 #Weidringer[TM] for a Wiener Symphoniker concert going back to the future for Vivaldi, Haydn, and Van Halen.

Precisely! Courtesy appelboom pen store.

#morninglistening to #NikolaiLugansky's new Schumann album on harmoniamundi which includes a mightily driven Faschingsschwank from Vienna, befitting how much R.S. disliked this town. :-)

Amzn: amzn.to/3ObHbvK

One of the more consistently interesting pianists of our time.

#morninglistening to #NikolaiLugansky's new Schumann album on @harmoniamundi_inter which includes a mightily driven Faschingsschwank from Vienna, befitting how much R.S. disliked this town. :-)

Amzn: amzn.to/3ObHbvK

One of the more consistently interesting pianists of our time.

Ladies' #Weidringer[TM] for the Kammerorchester Basel, Dorian, Lazarova, C.Schumann, E.Mayer - and Bobby Sch.

#morninglistening to more Russian Bach on the piano, but I have to admit that #SviatoslavRichter in this repertoire does NOTHING for me. The concertos are passable @ best, the Suite lacks pulse & grace. I much prefer the aforementioned plus Sokolov, Batagov, Gavrilov, Nikolayeva, Lifschitz, Ashk.

YouTube video by micheldvorsky The Search for Petula Clark (Glenn Gould Radio Documentary, 1967)

Has anyone ever heard Glenn Gould's radio documentary "The Search for Petula Clark"

I wonder if there are any Gould apologists who can talk themselves into that string of pretensions and garbage casual asides on music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZL...
&
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4pc...

Man muss nicht immer draufhauen. Manchmal einfach Dinge stehen lassen und das Gute daraus mitnehmen.

YouTube video by micheldvorsky The Search for Petula Clark (Glenn Gould Radio Documentary, 1967)

Has anyone ever heard Glenn Gould's radio documentary "The Search for Petula Clark"

I wonder if there are any Gould apologists who can talk themselves into that string of pretensions and garbage casual asides on music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZL...
&
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4pc...

#morninglistening to #JohannSebastianBach's TheArtOfTheFugue w/#VladimirFeltsman on Nimbus. Feltsman is always a very good, safe choice in Bach, even as I might prefer Koroliev over all. TAotF is perhaps not his most inspired Bach album but he certainly never missteps. Favorite versions, anyone?

Cabal & Opera #Weidringer[TM] at the Wiener Staatsoper for Oper Magazin

#morninglistening to one of several very cool "Discoveries" albums of @RiccardoChailly, all on @deccaclassics, here w/Verdi and @jeanyvesthibaudet. Unheard-of and unsuspected pieces by familiar greats. Like the Verdi PianoConcerto (essentially). Love it.

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How To Build A Top Quality Classical Music Library For $100 (Part 1) Introduction The Why, How, and What This is a reposting (edited and expanded) of an article that George A. Pieler and I wrote fo...

Rescued from the Æther: How To Build A Top Quality Classical Music Library For $100 (Part 1)

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#morninglistening to what should, in theory, be SUCH an interesting disc: Granados' piano-transcriptions of Scarlatti-Sonatas. Maybe they're not that great. But w/ DouglasRiva's pedestrian, plodding delivery, you'd never know they are at fault. Just imagine someone like, say, TzimonBarto do those!?!

#morninglistening to my love, #JosephHaydn (#HaydnCuresAllProblems) here w/the concertocopenhagen on Berlinclassics in three named symphonies: Mourning, Mercury & Palindrome.

The hidden track (spoiler alert) threw me off, at first. 😇🥰💚

Critic’s Notebook: Pannon Philharmonic from Pécs at Vienna’s Musikverein Also reviewed for Die Presse : Von wegen Touristenfallenkonzert! Eine überraschende Stichprobe im Wiener Musi...

Critic’s Notebook: Pannon Philharmonic from Pécs at Vienna’s Musikverein

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Von wegen Touristenfallenkonzert! Eine überraschende Stichprobe im... Die Bühne des Goldenen Saals kann jeder (teuer) buchen, deswegen verirren sich in manche Konzerte nur Touristen und Konzertnovizen. Doch ein Orchester aus einem Nachbarland erstaunt.

Recent reviews for Die Presse:

Von wegen Touristenfallenkonzert! Eine überraschende Stichprobe im Musikverein

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Martha Argerich im Musikverein: Da fällt es schwer, mit dem Jubel bis zum Ende zu warten

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#morninglistening to @pentatonemusic.bsky.social's new recording of the czechphilharmonic performing the Dvořák SlavonicDances under SimonRattle. Quite the coup for the label to have gotten Rattle on their roster. Re-listening will have to commence soon to better grasp the performance.

#morninglistening to #ChristianZacharias in his #WAMozart PianoConcertos, working my way back through the box. These are w/DavidZinman and the @BRSOrchestra. It's hard to not like any good performance on hearing, so I really like these. 😇

Pannonian #Weidringer[TM] for the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra from Pécs at the Musikverein Wien. Checking out the odd 'tourist concert'.

#morninglistening to a HIP #WAMozart PianoConcerto recording of the first hour: Cologne's CollegiumAureum w/JörgDemus on DHM. This was the NorthWest-equivalent of the ConcentusMusicus in Vienna and made Cologne and early music hub.