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2023-04-21 00:00:00
Bruckner, Dvorak, Mahler and Mendelssohn Symphonies [Franz Welser-Möst]
[…] the finest ever recordings of the Fifth Symphony.And I saw and heard Welser-Möst lead a riveting performance of Peter Grimes at Glyndebourne in 1994 in Trevor Nunn's production.Here's another early recording in a rather curious collection; although providing a rare opportunity to hear Okko Kamu as violin soloist in the Sallinen concerto.01 - 04 Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G major, op.88 * [36'52]05 - 06 Aulis Sallinen: Violin Concerto, op.18 ^ [15'42]07 Lars-Åke Franke-Blom: Music for a Mobile ~ [15'37]Okko Kamu- violin^; Norrköping Symphony Orchestra conducted by Franz Welser-Möst*, Sven-Gunnar Andrén^ and Jorma Panula~Swedish Society MAP CD9134 [recorded December 1986*, November 1973^ and April 1978~; download issued 2021][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venues: Berwald Hall, Stockholm* and Concert Hall, Norrköping^~, SwedenProducer and Technician: Bertil ÖstbergDownload from Mega.
2020-03-20 17:34:00
Power and patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte
[…] ed. L. Macy (accessed 27 February 2006), http://www.grovemusic.com. [3] T.C.W. Blanning, The culture of power and the power of culture: old regime Europe 1660-1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 178-9. [4] J.A. Rice, Antonio Salieri and Viennese opera (University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 1998), p. 507. [5] Rice, La clemenza di Tito, p. 5. [6] E.O. Deutsch (ed.), Mozart, a documentary biography, trs E. Blom, P. Branscombe, and J. Noble (London: Black, 1965), p. 405. [7] See letter to Constanze Mozart, 7-8 October 1791, in W.A. Bauer and O.E. Deutsch (eds.) Mozart: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. Gesamtasusgabe, 7 vols. (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1962-75), vol. IV, p. 157. [8] Ibid., p. 154. [9] See P. Branscombe, Die Zauberflöte(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 67-86. [10] Letter to Constanze, 14 October 1791, in Briefe, […]
2016-05-31 03:28:28
[…] the hymn Mahler had used: “Abide by Me.” … The members of the audience went their separate ways knowing that they had partaken in something extraordinary. They could not possibly know that with this concert they had been present at the end of an era, that the people composing the audience would never again come together quite like this, that many of them would soon be dispersed around the world, or dead. -Philipp Blom Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 (2015)
2016-02-23 13:00:06
From the archive, 5 July 1953: The Observer’s Eric Blom finds Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony an ordeal, but applauds the BBC for broadcasting itChamber music and chamber-orchestral concerts in London are by no means unenterprising nowadays, but our large orchestras find it desperately difficult to hold their heads above water without courting wide popularity by stale and repetitive programmes. One must therefore highly commend the B.B.C.’s Third Programme for going to the fantastic extravagance of giving two performances of Olivier Messiaen’s “Turangalila-Symphonie,” a monstrously long and exacting work of which none of our organisations could possibly afford to give a concert-hall performance. Now it is sure to have been said by those who sat through the protracted enormities of this work, and more particularly by those who could not find the patience or the fairness of mind to sit it through, that even as a broadcast it wasted an unconscionable amount […]
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