Over at Standpoint, Jessica Duchen interviews formidable violinist Philippe Quint about his new recording of the Korngold Violin Concerto for Naxos.
Serendipitous Musical Timing
Huge thunderstorm over New York City — with building-shaking thunder that started just as…
Busy Busy Busy… Coming Attractions
Sidetracked by life, business and the fickle random influence of the known universe. Here’s what’s on the way:
- A post on two stunning recordings made in the Frauenkirche Leipzig
- An online Furtwängler Discographythat’s in development
- An interesting new project I’m undertaking with a music industry vet and an amazing producer-mastering engineer
Mystery Track: Name the Pianist
Here’s one for the pianophiles: Bach‘s Prelude and Fugue in b-flat minor from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. Who is the pianist?
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Mystery Track Revealed
Brahms‘s Hungarian Dance No.1 performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. I know, nowhere as obscure as Konstantin Ivanov! Recorded in 1934, first released as Victor Red Seal 1675, and now available in Music & Arts’ superb four-disc survey of ultra-rare Stoky-Philly recordings.
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The media covers the DC Holocaust Museum shooting
I weigh in at APJ.
Stanley Drucker, Hero of My Youth
Stanley Drucker, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic for sixty years and one of America’s truly legendary classical instrumentalists, is retiring at the end of this season. My review of his spectacular performance of Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto last night with the Philharmonic conducted by Lorin Maazel can be found at Classical Source. Friday’s New York Times ran a terrific piece on Drucker by Daniel Wakin.
Mystery track: Guess the Violinist
Here is one of my favorite violinists, woefully underrecorded as a soloist, playing the finale of the BeethovenViolin Concerto, Op.61 with a student orchestra, who rise to the occasion quite well. You guessed it: name the soloist.
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The answer will be posted on July 10 at 1500 EST.
Mystery Track Revealed
The storm sequence from Richard Strauss‘s Eine Alpensinfonie, Op.64, captured in an aircheck from November 23, 1947. Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. From Volume 1 of Music & Arts’ invaluable The Art of Dimitri Mitropoulos.
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Mystery Track, Alpine Thunderstorm Edition
The storm sequence from Richard Strauss‘s Eine Alpensinfonie, Op.64. Can you name the conductor (and orchestra) captured in this vintage aircheck?
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All will be revealed at 1500 EST on July 3.