Friday, March 24, 2017

Happy Birthday, Béla Bartók!

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Béla Bartók, 1939 Last year, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Bartók's birth (March 25, 1881), Decca Classics issued a box set ...
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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Rosario Bourdon

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Rosario Bourdon Like Victor Herbert before him, and like Hans Kindler after, Montreal-born Rosario Bourdon (1885-1961) began his musica...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Knudåge Riisager

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Knudåge Riisager Born in Estonia to Danish parents (his father managed a cement factory there), Knudåge Riisager (1897-1974) would emerg...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Purcell: Harpsichord Suites (Sylvia Marlowe)

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I have had occasion, in the recent past, to sing the praises of New York's Gramophone Shop, and to enumerate their album series called...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Reger: Serenade for Orchestra (Jochum)

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Max Reger, 1906 I have had occasion to comment on the Reger Problem elsewhere (Irving Kolodin famously said that Reger's name sound...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Danish Music for Winds

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Jørgen Bentzon Perhaps it was inevitable after the success of Carl Nielsen's great Wind Quintet of 1922, but Danish composers since ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Boris Godunov - Symphonic Synthesis (Stokowski, 1941)

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Cover design by Alex Steinweiss This is something that I should really have saved for Stokowski's birthday in April, but I simply co...
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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Nielsen: Aladdin Suite (Felumb)

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This week I present what appears to be the first recording of an orchestral work of Carl Nielsen to occupy more than one record (perhaps, ...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Finn Viderø at the Compenius Organ

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The 1610 Compenius Organ, Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark (as pictured in the booklet for the Gramophone Shop Celebrities Album) Happy Ne...
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