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Verdi’s
Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s
Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, written especially for this concert. This will be performed between two Brahms viola sonatas which were originally written for clarinet. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor
Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s
Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s
Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brian Jagde, Ambrogio Maestri, Zoryana Kushpler, and Isabel Signoret; Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Giovannini, and Sergey Kaydalov. Production from November 2020. Register for free and view here.
The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No 2 and
Hungarian Peasant Songs. Dausgaard is also the Music Director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and his recording with them last year of Nielsen s First and Second Symphonies is highly recommended – it was our Recording of the Month in the November issue.
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2. Beethoven Triple Concerto
Just last week we recommended a new recording of Beethoven s Seventh Symphony by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and this week they are back with more Beethoven, conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and multi-
Gramophone Award-winning soloists violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexander Melnikov.
Gramophone Concerto Award in 2012 and her recording of the complete Beethoven violin sonatas with Melnikov won the
It may be an acquired taste, but once music lovers develop an interest in the music of 20th-century composer Alban Berg, it can become a passionate preference. If you are timid sampling atonal music, rest assured- there is a strong Romantic aesthetic informing even his thorniest scores. New listeners are amazed how well they stand the test of time.
Alban Berg Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs, and Three Pieces for Orchestra
SFS Media, the San Francisco Symphony s (SFS) top-rank in-house media production company releases an album of three major Berg works recorded in high-resolution, available in 5.1 surround-capable SACD and for download and streaming on February 26. The hard copy and digital download is already available to pre-order.