Lisa Batiashvili , violin – Francois Leleux, Oboe – Sebastian Klinger, cello – Guy Ben Ziony, viola – Milana Chernyavska, piano – go team! Over to Paris this week for a concert featuring Lisa Batiashvili, violin along with Francois Leleux, oboe – Sebastian Kliner, cello – Guy Ben Ziony, viola
Over to Berlin this week for a concert by the Staatskapelle-Berlin led by Daniel Barenboim, recorded September 11, 2020 by RBB Berlin. The concert opens with a performance of Initiale by Pierre Boulez – it’s followed by the Prelude from Die Meistersinger by Wagner. And then Jörg Widmann’s Zeitensprünge: 450
Walter Klien, Piano – New York Philharmonic – Erich Leinsdorf, guest Cond. January 23, 1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week. This time, it’s the New York Philharmonic guest conducted by Erich Leinsdorf and featuring pianist Walter Klien in a January 1986 broadcast which marked
USSR Symphony – Yevgeny Svetlanov, Conductor – 1977 Prague Spring Festival – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week; The USSR Symphony conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov and recorded during the Prague Spring Festival 1977. Three works are featured – opening with Symphony Number 1 (Classical) by Prokofiev,
Mihoki Fujimura (L) – Fabio Luisi (R) – It all started with Wagner. Over to Tokyo this week for a concert by the legendary NHK Symphony, guest conducted by Fabio Luisi and featuring mezzo Soprano Mihoko Fujimura in a performance of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder – broadcast live on December 3,
Sir Neville Marriner, Cond. – Radu Lupu, Piano – Stuttgart Radio Symphony – Nov. 11, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week (a lot of them lately), This one featuring the famed Stuttgart Radio Symphony, guest conducted by the legendary Sir Neville Marriner and featuring
Mstislav Rostropovich (L) – Gennady Roszhdestvensky (R) – Legendary Collaborations Something historic this week – a concert from the 14th Edinburgh Festival in 1960 featuring the Leningrad Philharmonic, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky with Mstislav Rostropovich, cello in the UK Premier of the Cello Concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich, which was dedicated
Cédric Tiberghien – in recital – Recorded May 21, 2011 – ORF-Austria – French pianist Cédric Tiberghien in recital this week with a fairly familiar repertoire of the tried-and-true. Beginning the concert with a pereformance of the Beethoven Piano Sonat #14 (Moonlight) and then a performance of Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Ravel’s
Murray Perahia (L) – Seiji Ozawa (R) – part of the 99th season of the BSO. The Boston Symphony in concert this week – recorded on November 29, 1979 with Murray Perahia, piano and music Director Seiji Ozawa leading the orchestra through works by Mozart and Holst. Starting with the
Leif Ove Andsnes (L) – Gustavo Dudamel – collaborations of the best kind. Over to Gothenburg by way of Madrid this week for a concert by The Gothenburg Symphony conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and featuring Leif Ove Ansdnes in music of Rachmaninoff and Chopin. It was recorded by Radio Finland
