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Massive update to the #BrucknerSymphonyCycleSurvey!
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Not quite finished but already so much more information. And lots of new cycles added!
#morninglistening to a fabulous #GustavMahler 5th coupled w/my FAR&AWAY favorite M 10. The bold, imaginative, gutsy, colorful Barshai-reimagination that gets the heck played out of by the JDP. Easily a Top10 Mahler-recording.
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Your review is mentioned on the largest news outlet here in the Netherlands.
Boegeroep in Berlijnse opera: Wagner-bewerking over Israël verdeelt publiek - nos.nl/l/2637153
Good intentions making antisemitism cool again. A Flying Dutchman instrumentalized as a vehicle for politico-historical illiteracy. For @DiePressecom
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Delayed #Weidringer[TM] for the Milo Rau FlyingDutchman at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Barberic #Weidringer [TM] for Samuel B.'s Piano Concerto op.38 w/ Yuja Wang and the Wiener Symphoniker at the Musikverein Wien
#morninglistening to #Furtwängler's Beethoven's Fidelio. Despite sonic limitations, this is actually still an impressive recording. The cast doesn't hurt, from Mödl to Windgassen, Jurinac, Frick & Edelmann.
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If you could listen to only one number Symphony - only every 1st or 7th or 33rd et al. - which Number would it be? And which composers most influenced you in that arbitrary decisions?
Cloudy #Weidringer [TM] for Schumann Lieder with GerhaherHuber-one-word at the Wiener Konzerthaus
#morninglistening to this charming throwback #LaCalisto w/RaymondLeppard, Cotrubas, Bowman, Baker, Kubiak & the @LPOrchestra on @deccaclassics
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#morninglistening to the gritty #TátraiQuartet in Haydn op. 42. Yes, some of the intonation can be janky at times, but a lot of it is just terrific music-making. One does wish for a @hungarotonclassic box-set rerelease.😇🥰
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Cuyahoga #Weidringer [TM] for the The Cleveland Orchestra at the Musikverein Wien in Strauss & DSCH8.
#morninglistening to JSBach, being now 2 volumes away from having cobbled together the complete set of the BachPilgrimage/SDG/Gardiner/MCO Cantata cycle: A goal ever since I got the first one as an in-Store-play copy at TowerRecords, 20+ years ago.
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#morninglistening to AndreasStaier & the @FreiburgBaroque orchestra in the #JSBach keyboard concertos on @harmoniamundi. Powerful, great-sounding, straight-laced.
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So you have a favorite recording of these on the harpsichord?
Monothematic #Weidringer [TM] at the Wiener Konzerthaus for the Ebène/Belcea Quartets in all-Beethoven
Creative #Weidringer [TM] for Die Schöpfung (Haydn, mon amour) w/ Barucco, Wiener Singakademie et al at the Wiener Konzerthaus
More updates are happening: Expanded Haitink section, Text for Skrowa, and Poschner (what an omission!) added, including every individual of the @CapriccioRec releases!
#morninglistening to late #LvBeethoven stringquartets in memory of GünterPichler & Lobo. #AlbanBergQuartet on @WarnerClassics.
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#morninglistening to the Mozartean chancellor. What times! Eschenbach had (some) hair, JustusFranz hadn't gone native out east, Social Democrats were a centrist force to be reckoned with. Charming music in a charming performance.
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#morninglistening to Susan Landale's complete CésarFranck organ works on Calliope, which is the recording I instinctively turn to, when I feel like some Franck/organ. Strangely reissued on Phaia, not @ladolcevolta?
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