#classicalmusic #karolSzymanowski
Spinning, violin concerti of Karol Szymanowski - great stuff - very much in a classic film score vein. And I do not denigrate it in saying that. There were stupendous film scores being produced back in the '30s & '40s, by the likes of Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, etc. Szymanowski would have fit in perfectly with all the other expats.
I don't know Alena Baeva, but she sounds great - brava!

#newYorkPhilharmonic #beethoven #classicalmusic #fredericRzewski
At the NY Phil in Geffen Hall, a few nights ago: Dudamel conducted the "Eroica" (horns very much in the forefront here - perhaps more so than would be expected?), and the world premiere of the orchestration - by 18 individual composers of 24 of the 36 variations in Frederic Rzewski's variations (for piano) on the Chilean protest anthem "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!" (The people united will never be defeated).

#beethoven #alfredBrendel, #classicalmusic
Spinning, Brendel playing the Beethoven Diabelli Variations, an old Vox recordings. Brendel recorded almost all the Beethoven solo piano music (and the concerti, too) for Vox in the very early 1960s. Late in life, after having gone on to record all this stuff with major labels, several times over, he dismissed these early Vox recordings as being distinctly inferior, played on crappy pianos and in third rate recording venues with poor acoustics. Hm...

Spinning for lunch, Brendel playing the Beethoven Diabelli Variations, one of those old Vox recordings. Brendel recorded almost all the Beethoven solo piano music (and the concerti, too) for Vox in the very early 1960s. Late in life, after having gone on to record all this stuff with major labels, several times over, he dismissed these early Vox recordings as being distinctly inferior, played on crappy pianos and in third rate recording venues with poor acoustics. Hm...

At the NY Phil last night in Geffen Hall: Dudamel conducted the "Eroica" (horns very much in the forefront here - perhaps more so than would be expected?), and the world premiere of the orchestration - by 18 individual composers of 24 of the 36 variations in Frederic Rzewski's variations (for piano) on the Chilean protest anthem "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!" (The people united will never be defeated).