Can you identify the conductor – and orchestra – performing Respighi’s Fontane di Roma in this historic archival (non-commercial) recording? Drop me a line with your best guess. The answer will be posted late Friday.
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Light Blogging
I’m wrapped up on a project this week; some interesting surprises are on the back burner and will appear here next week.
NOW PLAYING: Alfred Deller — The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Volume 2 [full disclosure: I did the CD mastering work on Greg Barbero’s compilations, using David Baker’s excellent transfers from the original tape sources]
Yundi Li @ Carnegie
My review of this young and interesting pianist is up at Classical Source.
“Anna Magdalena, ein schwindel!”
Reuters’ Pauline Askin reports on an Australian music scholar who claims that Bach’s second wife wrote a number of works attributed to him.
Smashmouth Now!
I chime in on the rise of Democratic spinal fortitude and a need to apply the Chicago rules at APJ.
When You’ve Lost Ann Landers’s Daughter…
Via Lisa Derrick at the reliably ahead-of-the-curve Campaign Silo (whose missile-implying name always seems to bring to mind Onion News Network’s War for the White House reports… and if you’ve never seen the opening FOX-News-eat-yer-heart-out title sequence… but I digress…), we read that the terrific advice columnist Margot Howard, daughter of the iconic Ann Landers, is none too impressed by Slick Sally:
CMSLC Plays Milhaud, Boulez, Ravel and Messiaen
Read my review at Classical Source.
What Digby Said
… about Senator McCain:
This is what heroes with honor and integrity do. A true patriot will always try to change the subject by smearing his opponents character, particularly during time of crisis.
Read her entire article here.
‘Cast from the Past: Deryck Cooke on an “Authentic” Mahler Tradition
Shortly after the 1962 release of Otto Klemperer’s EMI/Columbia (UK) recording of Mahler’s Symphony No.4, musicologist Deryck Cooke recorded a program for the BBC Third Programme comparing Klemperer’s recordings to others, particularly Bruno Walter and Willem Mengelberg, in search of an “authentic” interpretive approach to Mahler.
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Leopold Stokowski on Mahler’s Symphony No.8
Stokowski recalls the both the world premiere and American premiere of the work; from an interview recorded in the late 1960s. (Podcast is after the break.)
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