#morninglistening to #EugenDAlbert's #Tiefland. I've wanted to listen to this opera for over 20 years and for some reason or other put it off or didn't get to it. So there are still mainstream "discoveries" for me out there - and what a charming (if disturbing) one this one is!
I remember all those discs coming out, just from hanging out at Tower Records a lot. (Or maybe I was already working there, at the time?)
Győresque #Weidringer[TM] at the Musikverein Wien for the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra in the Shor PC (!), Rachmaninov & Beethoven 2nd. With Poppen conducting.
(No more programs available to cover myself with.)
What's your favorite funny moment in classical music?
Like the Tristan-chord when they slip rum into Albert Herring's lemonade.
Or the "re-tuning" episode in Haydn's "Il distratto" symphony... that sort of thing.
Most recently this: @rsowien & Meister re-united in Saariaho & Musorgsky + Mahler
Das RSO unter Meister im Konzerthaus: Feine Häppchen bei'ner Ausstellung
www.diepresse.com/20783020/das...
...and, of course, this, of the @barokksolistene, which brought back memories of Dublin, 2009, courtesy Steve Player. Presse & ionarts:
Bier und Barock im Konzerthaus: „Jolly Musicke“ bis zum Umfallen
www.diepresse.com/20776181/bie...
&
ionarts.blogspot.com/2026/04/crit...
Then there was this, the LeonkoroQuartet at the Konzerthaus in the amazing Schulhoff 5 Pieces for String Quartet and LvB op.131
"Eine Tarantella nah am Abgrund"
diepresse.com/20774423/das...
@leonkoro.bsky.social
Or this, from the Musikverein of the Tonkünstler-Orchester w/ Hans Graf (still alive!)
Hindemith und Rachmaninoff – im Wechselspiel hoher und niedriger Erwartungen
www.diepresse.com/20764918/mus...
Lots of reviews for die Presse:
For example from the Konzerthaus: "Ein unerschrockenes Quartett, das mit Larcher erfreut"
diepresse.com/20764917/kon...
Beneluxed #Weidringer[TM] at the Wiener Konzerthaus for Sokhiev in Mahler 2, courtesy Philharmonie Luxembourg
#morninglistening to Hlíf Sigurjónsdóttur's Bach Sonatas and Partitas which I had neglected to do for the last 18 years. Mea culpa. Generously resonant acoustic, perfectly fine playing.
Picturesque #Weidringer[TM] for Musorgsky, Saariaho, and Mahler w/Meister and the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - RSO Wien
#morninglistening to Bach cantatas from @bachstiftung & #RudolfLutz on arrival of the latest batch. Vol.52 w/the Pergolesi-Cantata BWV1083 and "Liebster Immanuel" for Epiphanias.
Amazon: amzn.to/4mBeLIl
#Bach - Step by lively, invigorating step, the St.Gallen #CantataCycle continues. ♡♡♡
RIP Oleg Maisenberg (Олег Иосифович Майзенберг), who died this afternoon, at the age of 80, 13 days before his 81st birthday. The Soviet Ukrainian was perhaps best known as Gidon Kremer's chamber music partner. His career reached an apex in the early 90s, in Vienna.
Favorite recordings, anyone?
Schulhoff #Weidringer[TM] for the Leonkoro Quartett at the Wiener Konzerthaus' Schubert Saal. With the bloody amazing Five Pieces of said composer and a smattering of LvB 131.
I understand. They don't do a free trial for the online version, do they?
Ghostly stuff. Very Janačékian. Do you know the violin concerto? Like that. But opera.
I think I put rather a nice spin on it, actually...
Review for @diepressecom.bsky.social
Darf „Babi Yar“ Spaß machen?
Der Samstagabend brachte die unwiderstehlich beeindruckende 13. Sinfonie von Schostakowitsch unter Elim Chan.
www.diepresse.com/20760970/dar...
Genocidal #Weidringer for DSCH's Babi Yar at the Musikverein Wien w/ Elim Chan & the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - RSO Wien
Wessen Handy jetzt losgeht, der müsste eventuell befürchten erschlagen zu werden, von einem aus der Entzückung gerissenen Platznachbarn. Das geschah Gottseidank nicht; Handys klingelten nur im Trauermarsch bei Chopin...
Arcadi Volodos Review for @diepressecom.bsky.social
www.diepresse.com/20757429/vol...
Jess Gillams Superpower: Coolness. Ihre Markenzeichen: markante Brille, fuchsroter Pferdeschwanz. Ihr Handicap: Saxofon
Latest for @diepressecom.bsky.social at the Musikverein
www.diepresse.com/20749581/jes...
#morninglistening to SemyonBychkov's #GustavMahler cycle w/the @czechphilharmonic on @pentatonemusic which is now finished & boxed! Arriving @ No.6, laudably Scherzo-Andante. Not among the brutalist takes; more forgiving.
Amazon: amzn.to/4rM4Qk9
#morninglistening to the #Shostakovich discoveries again, which include charming little nothings and quirkies from Trifonov, Mönkemayer et al.
Both!
I wish I had done this more often.
What makes you prefer Andante-Scherzo, if anything specifically?
