- Schubert, String Quartets 12 and 15, Alban Berg Quartet
- French Cafe Songs, disc 2 of 2
- Barry Schrader, Monkey King
- Early French Tenors, Marston Records
- Wind Quintets by Nielsen, Ligeti, Depraz, Nielsen Wind Quintet
- Busoni, Piano Concerto, Dohnanyi/Ohlsson, Cleveland SO. Intruiged by the credit to the Men's Chorus of the orchestra.
- Hesperion XXI, Villancicos y Danzas Criollas
- Moravec, Tempest Fantasy and other works, natch.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Road Trip Playlist
I'm bringing along a weird assortment of CDs:
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You've not heard the Busoni? The tenors sing in the final movement, so I keep hoping I'll have a chance to do it someday. I heard Ohlsson perform this in Boston around the time of this recording and it was magnificent. Enjoy it!
I had not heard it before yesterday, when I managed to hear the whole thing, just barely, while driving from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. I find myself at a loss for words. :) It's quite....uh....something, so incredibly long and discursive, and something of a mess.
It's a beautiful mess though...for some reason the piano entrance in the first movement reminds me of Grand Pianola Music. I just love that he was like, "I really like Mahler 2...what if I just did that, in a Piano Concerto?"
Haha, yeah.
I can see why it never gets performed, since it's as long as a Mahler symphony....but nobody knows it, except Garrick Ohlsson. And what would you put on the program with it?!
Elgar's Violin Concerto.
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