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“Dances for Piano and Orchestra” = CADMAN: Dark Dances of the Mardi Gras; CASTRO: Vals Capricho; CHOPIN: KRAKOWIAK: Concert Rondo in F; GOTTSCHALK: Grand Tarantelle; LISZT: Polonaise brillante; PIERNE: Fantaisie-Ballet; SAINT-SAENS: Valse-Caprice, “Wedding Cake” – Joel Fan, p./ Northwest Sinfonietta/ Christophe Chagnard – Reference Recordings
Don’t let the title throw you off—this is riveting stuff!
“The Orchestra” – Claudio Abbado & The Mozart’s Orchestra, Blu-ray (2013)
A moving tribute to Abbado and the musicians of the Orchestra Mozart.
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3 in d; Symphony No. 5 – Marjana Lipovsek, mezzo-sop./ Vienna Children’s Chorus/ Women of the Vienna Chorus/ Bavarian State Orch./ Zubin Mehta – Farao Classics Blu-ray
Almost a very long home run. And definitely worth the $28 price!
JACK GALLAGHER: Symphony No. 2, “Ascendant”; Quiet Reflections – London Sym. Orch./ Jo Ann Falletta – Naxos
Jack Gallagher’s series continues with this monumental and splendid Second Symphony.
Best of the Year Discs for 2014
* = The 12 Multichannel Discs of the Month, all in Classical CLASSICAL (incl. HI-RES), CLASSICAL REISSUES, CLASSICAL VINYL & PURE AUDIO BLU-RAY JOHN ADAMS: The Gospel According to the Other Mary – DGG 479 2243 * The Argentinian Album – Works of PIAZZOLLA, GINASTERA, GOLIJOV – Amsterdam Sinfonietta – Channel Classics CCS SA 33014 BEETHOVEN: Complete Quartets – Tokyo String Quartet – Harmonia mundi (8 SACDs) BEETHOVEN: String Quartets, Vol. 3 – Quartetto di Cremona – Audite SACD 92.682 * BERIO: Calmo; Quattro version originali della Ritirata Notturna di Madrid di L. Boccherini; Sinfonia – Soloists/ Finnish Radio Sym. Orch./ Hannu Lintu – Ondine SACD ODE 1227-5 * BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, Waverly Ov. – London Sym./ Gergiev – LSO Live audio-only Blu-ray+CD LSO0757 * BRAHMS: A German Requiem – Antoni Wit – Naxos audio-only Blu-ray NBD0039 BRAHMS: String Sextets – Prazak Quartet, et al – Praga SACD DSD 250 297 * BRUCKNER: Symphonies Nos. 4, 7 & 8 – Nagano – Farao audio-only Blu-ray A 108076 * BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 – Bernard Haitink – LSO Live SACD LSO0746 The Choral Sea – New music for soprano saxophone and piano – Sue McKenzie, sax/ Ingrid Sawers, piano – Delphian […]
Lennie Tristano – Chicago, April 1951 – Uptown
A thrilling musical dialogue among musicians who are at their improvisational best.
BARGIEL: Complete Orchestral Music, Volume I = Symphony in C Major; Overtures: to a Tragedy; Prometheus; Medea – Siberian Sym. Orch./ Dmitry Vasilyev – Toccata Classics
First recordings of orchestral works by Woldemar Bargiel, a composer who follows Schumann and Weber with a strong sense of their Romantic idiom.
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Die Glorreichen Sieben – Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World (A Tribute to Neil Young) [TrackList follows] – Boomslang
An outsider jazz tribute to Neil Young.
Frank Kimbrough Quartet – Palmetto Records
Frank Kimbrough is a pianist of vision and invention who along with his cohorts makes this session a most interesting offering.
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sheherazade – Toronto Sym./ Peter Oundjian – Chandos
A thrilling SACD in performance and recording – but a bit short on music.
Audioengine B1 Bluetooth Music Receiver SRP: $189
It is clear to see the appeal of having music play from “nowhere”—no wires and just a few button pushes.
Audioengine B1 Bluetooth Music Receiver SRP: $189
It is clear to see the appeal of having music play from “nowhere”—no wires and just a few button pushes.
Stravinsky in Hollywood, Blu-ray (2014)
Fascinating footage of Stravinsky’s later years in the U.S. and of Robert Craft at 90 and as a young man.
LARCHER: Smart Dust; Poems; What Becomes; A Padmore Cycle – Tamara Stefanovich, piano/ Mark Padmore, tenor/ Thomas Larcher, p, – Harmonia mundi
Interesting stuff for the curious and adventurous, well-crafted for the most part and done with panache.
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor; Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor – Dinu Lipatti, p./ Tonhalle Orch. Zurich/ Otto Ackermann – Pristine Audio
Andrew Rose grants a new and powerfully refreshed sound to Dinu Lipatti’s Chopin, a colossal meeting of musical sympathies.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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