This is my favorite pianist, conducted by Alexander Schneider of Marlboro Music fame during the Pablo Casals Festive in Puerto Rico. The recording is live from 1958. I hope that...
Read MoreThere are many recording of this symphony. I chose John Barbirolli's rendition. Barbirolli was not without his critics, especially in the U.S., where he directed the New York Philharmonic for...
Read MoreI have a strange history with this piece. I had a radio show in college, and I remember playing a performance of the Concerto for Orchestra. I didn't like it,...
Read MoreI am selecting Bruckner's 8th Symphony because it is tremendous music, possibly because people don't listen to Bruckner very often, and more than likely because of the conductor, Eugen Jochum....
Read MoreI would like to highlight another composer who is perhaps little known today. This is a performance with an outstanding cast of soloists. I will write more about Fricsay below....
Read MoreI don't think that I have posted anything about Felix Weingartner in several years. I am going to remedy that with this post. This is Weingartner conducting Beethoven's 5th Symphony,...
Read MoreCall me repetitious. I last posted Landowska in 2018, but I am posting her again. She was and is that important. I am posting Book I of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier....
Read MoreI decided that this week I would post an instrumentalist instead of a singer. This is Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, opus 64. It is an immensely popular work,...
Read MoreGeraldine Farrar was an American soprano, known for her beauty and dramatic talent and the intimate timbre of her voice. Farrar displayed musical talent from early childhood, and although she...
Read MoreAs early as the 1850s, Robert Schumann wrote prophetically of Johannes Brahms as a messiah who would not so much emerge gradually, but would instead reveal himself at once in...
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