Monday, July 25, 2016

Larry Adler - Harmonica Virtuoso

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Cover design by Alex Steinweiss Some more light listening for the summer months - a set that would have been the first exposure of many ...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Two Swedish Symphonies

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Kurt Atterberg                              Gösta Nystroem This week I present two symphonies from Sweden, one of which is probably the ...
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Sunday, July 10, 2016

Couperin by Maurice Hewitt

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Maurice Hewitt In time for Bastille Day this year, another artifact from Occupied France, from a member of the Resistance, the violinist...
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Friday, July 1, 2016

Haydn: "Farewell" Symphony (Leinsdorf, 1946)

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Haydn and Leinsdorf notwithstanding, a large part of the reason for this post is to pay tribute to Deems Taylor, who died fifty years ago ...
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Morton Gould's First Decca and Columbia Sets

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Summertime, and the listenin' is easy....or it should be, I suppose. Anyway, it seems a good time to share my latest Morton Gould acqu...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Reger: String Trio in A Minor (Amar-Hindemith Trio)

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This is one of those recordings that I am particularly excited to possess and to share; however, about 98% of the excitement derives from ...
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Sunday, June 5, 2016

Miaskovsky: Symphonies Nos. 16 and 21 (Ivanov)

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Nikolai Miaskovsky In recent years, the music of Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1881-1950) - or, to give the currently preferred transl...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Loeffler: Partita for Violin and Piano

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Charles Martin Loeffler, 1917 (pencil sketch by John Singer Sargent) 81 years and one week ago today, May 19, 1935, the Alsatian-born A...
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Schubert: Rosamunde (Harty)

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The great Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) contributed to Columbia's centennial celebrations of both Beethoven and Schubert in 1927-28 w...
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