ClassicalCritic
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Roving Classical Critic-at-Large & Translator. Opinions are my own - or stolen. Amazon links are affiliate links
Anti-antisemitic #Weidringer [TM] for the commemoration ceremony w/Michel Friedman at the Bayreuther Festspiele
Elysiastic #Weidringer [TM] at the Bayreuther Festspiele - Bayreuth Festival for Die Presse, feat. LvB9, Thielemann, and Vogt instead of Beczała.
#morninglistening to JanLisiecki, the bambergsymphony & manfredhoneck in Lisiecki's last (!) recording for DG: An eminently tasteful, beautiful disc of Mozart E-flat Major #PianoConcertos: Nos.9&22 Amzn: amzn.to/4pGfmdx
to OscarStraus' DieLustigenNibelungen: advanced Bayreuth-prep in 3/4 time and very, very funny lyrics. Amzn: amzn.to/4hsQZhf
#morninglistening to #WilliamWalton's two Symphonies w/the @thecbso & @kazukiyamada.bsky.social on DG. A good deal of Holst in Sy.1; always good to hear these works. Clever choice. Amzn: amzn.to/3RQsTTd
#morninglistening to a #Bruckner 8th I'm genuinely looking forward to: the late great # Stanisław Skrowaczewski w/the YomiuriNipponSymphonyOrchestra in 2016. A Denon recording in the great re-issue series on @mdg.classics! Amzn: amzn.to/3ROTCQ7
Igor Levit: Once everybody's darling in the media, now suddenly fringe? He hasn't moved*. They have! Eine Meinung für @diepressecom.bsky.social *debatably www.diepresse.com/38500348/zen...
JEDERMANN! Leider Keinermann - denn Carsen/Hochmair unterlaufen in ihrer Art den von ihnen propagierten Sinn des Moralstückes. Da hilft auch die goldene Discokugel nicht. (Link untean; jeder! Klick hilft) www.diepresse.com/38318728/sal...
#morninglistening to #Rossini Discoveries, part of a wonderful RiccardoChailly series on @deccaclassics of unknown works by famous composers he likes. Here he delves into rarities and curios. Amzn: amzn.to/4vV6raw Hymns, Fanfare for four horns, rare overtures? He's got it!
#morninglistening to the JSBach CelloSuites played v. neatly on the viola by @marc_sabbah The difficult bit is that it sounds easier than on the cello, but the Suites benefit from the sense of tenaciousness Amzn: amzn.to/4y70aKc Going where Tamestit, Rysanov, Kashkashian, Ranieri have gone before
#CarinthischerSommer, Startschuss, Anmoderation, Kritik. Für @diepresse.com.web.brid.gy Wohl dem, der im Strandbad Sattendorf ein Fahrrad geliehen bekommt, um noch zum Konzert zu kommen! www.diepresse.com/35576313/car...
Corresponding #Weidringer [TM] for a reading of letters between IngeborgBachmann & PaulCelan - from which only MaxFrisch emerges unscathed.
#morninglistening to the wonderful #StringQuartets of #VítězslavNovák w/the StamicQuartet in 2024-recordings on @supraphon_classics. Keeping me company on the trip from one festival to the next. Amzn: amzn.to/44dhwY7
Triple-headed double-poison #Weidringer [TM] for Miss Cléopâtre & Sister Angelica the #TirolerFestspieleErl
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." (In case you've been wondering why things seem to go south.)
#morninglistening to Bizet's Djamileh, an opera, I think, without a plot or one I can't ever remember, but a dash of Tristan. Very frenchual [TM]. Questionable but amazingly cast in this recording with Munich's @rundfunkorchester. Amzn: amzn.to/4wp2jzi
Lovingly nicknamed "The Hobbit" by his fans, he brought a breath of fresh air to Haydn Sy's when hardly anyone else was touching the stuff. The real tragedy happened years ago, when an accident prevented him from working again, but his death reminds us of the great legacy he left! Hooray Thomas Fey!
Mountainous #Weidringer [TM] for a Fledermaus at the FestspieleReichenau.
#morninglistening to "Parsifal goes la Habana". I love a good crossover-Wagner bit of mixing it up. So this entire "goes to..." serious looked greatly ingesting. Unfortunately, it's cheaply arranged, clumsily put together, & of varying and sometimes no inspiration.
Her favorite Wagner Opera: Act 2 of Parsifal. All about girls, love, and flowers!
Grilled'n'grailed #Weidringer [TM] for the #WagnerDay-closing performance of Parsifal at the Müpa Budapest Reporting for DiePresse
#morninglistening to the #VaughanWilliams #StringQuartets w/the MagginiQuartet on Naxos. Frustrating works because I want to love them and they're lovely. But aggressively unmemorable. Amzn: amzn.to/4eJpjSh Before the CD is over, I don't remember a note. 😥
Review of the MüPa Ring, part one, for @diepressecom.bsky.social www.diepresse.com/33379307/der...
Buchbinder @ the Konzerthaus Wien. Last subscription concert of the season. Here's the review for @diepressecom.bsky.social: www.diepresse.com/32084818/kon...
Danubegolden #Weidringer [TM] at the Müpa Budapest for the last Wagner-Days under FischerÁdám. Izzie attending.
#morninglistening to the #AlbanBergQuartet's then seminal and still marvelous #LvBeethoven stringquartets from the top, w/op.18/1 after having eschewed all-too-long for no particular reason. Wish I had started before Pichler's passing, though. Amzn: amzn.to/4oKuSV4
#morninglistening to the Scriabin Preludes & Sonata Nº4 from Andrei Gavrilov (still alive). A pianist for two major labels when labels were still "major", his career somehow dissipated? Very much underrated, anyway. Amzn: amzn.to/3QkOWAX
#morninglistening to ednastern (and amandinebeyer) in Bach's CHACONNE, variously transcribed by Brahms, Busoni, and the @bachstiftung's own RudolfLutz. An album I love. On ZigZag (= outheremusic / alpha_classics) Amzn: amzn.to/4epdO3F