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composer, organist, voice teacher
- pipe organ, cello, piano
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2022-07-25 05:26:00
Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4 (CD review)
Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester. Pentatone PTC 5186 852.By John J. PuccioWhen I first got to know the talents of Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt (b. 1927), it was during his tenure as Music Director of my local big band, the San Francisco Symphony, from 1985 to 1995. My wife and I attended a number of his performances, and I always thought of him as a good, sturdy conductor. He never seemed splashy or flamboyant, just musically solid, so I sort of characterized him in the class of a Karl Bohm, Eugene Jochum, Adrian Boult, Eugene Ormandy, or Bernard Haitink. Friends of mine would sometimes say he was too “foursquare,” too “old fashioned,” or too much the “kapellmeister” in a derogatory sense. It’s true, he never displayed the celebrated idiosyncrasies that defined some other famous conductors like Stokowski, Bernstein, Karajan, or Klemperer, but he made up for it in concerts of simple, elegant […]
2022-07-18 05:27:00
Telemann: Viola Concertos (CD review)
Overtures-Fantasias. Antoine Tamestit, viola; Sabine Fehlandt, viola; Bernhard Forck, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin. Harmonia Mundi HMM 902342.By John J. PuccioIf you’re like me, you will immediately recognize the name of German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) but probably have trouble remembering anything he wrote. Alas, it is sometimes the fate of famous people who are perhaps more famous for their name alone than anything they actually did. The fact is, however, that Telemann was one of the most prolific composers of the Baroque age, maybe in all history, having written hundreds, if not thousands, of works. What’s more, he was a close friend of both J.S. Bach and Handel, and today he has a whole museum in Hamburg dedicated to him.On the present disc, violist Antoine Tamestit with the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin under the direction of Bernhard Forck (and alongside violist Sabine Fehlandt in a couple […]
2022-07-11 05:17:00
Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4 (CD review)
Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester. Pentatone PTC 5186 852.By John J. PuccioWhen I first got to know the talents of Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt (b. 1927), it was during his tenure as Music Director of my local big band, the San Francisco Symphony, from 1985-1995. My wife and I attended a number of his performances, and I always thought of him as a good, sturdy conductor. He never seemed splashy or flamboyant, just musically solid, so I sort of characterized him in the class of a Karl Bohm, Eugene Jochum, Adrian Boult, Eugene Ormandy, or Bernard Haitink. Friends of mine would sometimes say he was too “foursquare,” too “old fashioned,” or too much the “kapellmeister” in a derogatory sense. It’s true, he never displayed the celebrated idiosyncrasies that defined some other famous conductors like Stokowski, Bernstein, Karajan, or Klemperer, but he made up for it in concerts of simple, elegant directness.Whatever, Blomstedt […]
2022-04-04 05:47:00
New Year’s Concert 2022 (CD review)
Music of Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Eduard Strauss, and others. Daniel Barenboim, Vienna Philharmonic. Sony 19439962512 (2-disc set).By John J. PuccioYou doubtless know that Vienna’s New Year’s Concerts have been going on since 1941 when the Vienna Philharmonic began its annual custom of offering them, and things haven’t changed much since then. EMI, RCA, DG, Decca, and now Sony are among the many companies that have recorded the VPO’s concerts over the stereo years, and in keeping with the orchestra’s tradition of having no permanent music director, they invite a different conductor to perform the New Year’s duties each year. The New Year’s conductors in recent times have included some of the biggest names in the business, including Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Willi Boskovsky, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, Georges Pretre, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Franz Welser-Most, Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Andris Nelsons, […]
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