Friday, January 24, 2014

Mozart: Divertimento, K. 563 (Pasquier Trio)

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The Pasquier Trio The string trio repertoire is not large, but it is rich - and made richer by the efforts of the Pasquier Trio, three b...
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Hindemith by the Los Angeles Wind Quintet

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Good things come in small packages, goes the old cliché, and it's certainly true in this case.  Hindemith's delightful wind quinte...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 (Thomas Jensen)

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Cover design by George Maas The symphonies of Carl Nielsen have, over the past fifty years or so, entered the international concert repe...
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Friday, January 3, 2014

Franck: Quartet in D (Virtuoso String Quartet)

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In the next (February 2014) newsletter of the 78rpm Community , I have a discography of the Virtuoso String Quartet slated to appear.  In ...
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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Franz Reizenstein: Prologue, Variations and Finale

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Franz Reizenstein Franz who ? - I hear you say.  And I can't say I would blame you.  My only prior awareness of the Nuremberg-born F...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Bizet: Jeux d'Enfants (Antal Dorati)

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Antal Dorati As I mentioned at about this time last year, when I put up this post , Christmas is for children, and so children and their...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Borodin and Tchaikovsky by Mitropoulos

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Cover design by Karl Kezer Dimitri Mitropoulos, like his Minneapolis predecessor Eugene Ormandy, never disappoints in performances of Ru...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Beethoven: Quartet No. 6 (Coolidge Quartet)

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Happy Beethoven's Birthday! Here is my latest Coolidge Quartet find, another in their aborted series to record all the Beethoven strin...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Beethoven via Saint-Saëns, Bartlett and Robertson

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Camille Saint-Saëns, c. 1875 Beethoven's birthday is upon us again (Dec. 16), and, to celebrate, I present the finest set of variati...
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