Sometimes less is more; other times more is. Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Symphony No. 8 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Bernard Haitink, cond.), live, Amsterdam IA *** IB *** IIA *** IIB *** IIIA *** IIIB (misnumbered at YouTube; nothing’s missing) *** IIIC *** IVA *** IVB *** IVC (again, misnumbered at YouTube; nothing’s missing)
Archive for the ‘orchestra’ category
Thursday, 11/24/11
11/24/2011Monday, 1/24/11
01/24/2011Does anyone play Mozart with more verve? Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, KV. 466, first movement; Friedrich Gulda (piano and conducting), Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, live, Germany (Munich), 1986 Part 1 *** Part 2 More? Here. ********** lagniappe Friedrich Gulda has refused to succumb to the increasing specialization of our age, refused to [...]
Thursday, 1/14/10
01/14/2010No matter how many years I listen to music, there’s still nothing like the thrill of hearing, for the first time, something that grabs you by the collar—as this did last night—and doesn’t let go. Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Concerto for Piano and Strings (1979)/Evgeny Svetlanov, piano, Sinfonie Orchester der USSR Part 1 Part 2 Part [...]
Saturday, 10/17/09
10/17/2009Charlie Parker & Igor Stravinsky Walk into any record store and one would have been over here and the other over there. But that made no difference to the kinship they felt. ***** Jazz musicians sat up in their seats when Stravinsky’s music started playing; he was speaking something close to their language. When Charlie [...]
