ClassicalCritic

Good intentions making antisemitism cool again. A Flying Dutchman instrumentalized as a vehicle for politico-historical illiteracy. For @DiePressecom www.diepresse.com/41391360/wag...

Delayed #Weidringer[TM] for the Milo Rau FlyingDutchman at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Barberic #Weidringer [TM] for Samuel B.'s Piano Concerto op.38 w/ Yuja Wang and the Wiener Symphoniker at the Musikverein Wien

#morninglistening to #Furtwängler's Beethoven's Fidelio. Despite sonic limitations, this is actually still an impressive recording. The cast doesn't hurt, from Mödl to Windgassen, Jurinac, Frick & Edelmann. Amzn: link.amazon/B0aDlqAAB

Cloudy #Weidringer [TM] for Schumann Lieder with GerhaherHuber-one-word at the Wiener Konzerthaus

#morninglistening to this charming throwback #LaCalisto w/#RaymondLeppard, Cotrubas, Bowman, Baker, Kubiak & the londonphilharmonicorchestra on deccaclassics Amzn: amzn.to/4BhjLsP

#morninglistening to the gritty #TátraiQuartet in Haydn op. 42. Yes, some of the intonation can be janky at times, but a lot of it is just terrific music-making. One does wish for a @hungarotonclassic box-set rerelease.😇🥰 Amzn: amzn.to/4s3HSHi

#morninglistening to #JSBach, being now two volumes away from having cobbled together the complete set of the BachPilgrimage/SDG/Gardiner/MCO Cantata cycle: A goal ever since I got the first one as an in-Store-play copy at TowerRecords, 20+ years ago. Amzn: amzn.to/4B2FKn6

#morninglistening to AndreasStaier & the @freiburgerbarockorchester in the #JSBach keyboard concertos on @harmoniamundi. Powerful, great-sounding, straight-laced. Amzn: amzn.to/3VDSKiV So you have a favorite recording of these on the harpsichord?

Monothematic #Weidringer [TM] at the Wiener Konzerthaus for the Ebène/Belcea Quartets in all-Beethoven

Uraufführung von Daniel Behles Operette „Schmetterling“ in Annaberg-Buchholz. youtu.be/ZncHVCLtmtA?...

Creative #Weidringer [TM] for Die Schöpfung (Haydn, mon amour) w/ Barucco, Wiener Singakademie et al at the Wiener Konzerthaus

#morninglistening to late #LvBeethoven stringquartets in memory of GünterPichler & Lobo. #AlbanBergQuartet on @warner_classics. Amzn: amzn.to/4yK1lPK

#morninglistening to the Mozartean chancellor. What times! Eschenbach had (some) hair, JustusFranz hadn't gone native out east, Social Democrats were a centrist force to be reckoned with. Charming music in a charming performance. Amzn: amzn.to/478odML

Massive update to the #BrucknerSymphonyCycleSurvey! ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-su... Not quite finished but already so much more information. And lots of new cycles added!

#morninglistening to Susan Landale's complete #CésarFranck organ works on Calliope, which is the recording I instinctively turn to, when I feel like some Franck/organ. Strangely reissued on Phaia, not @ladolcevolta? Amzn: amzn.to/4jNYSyZ

Brahmsian #Weidringer [TM] at the Musikverein Wien for Prégardien, Julia Kleiter, Julius Drake in oodles of Johannes B.

Small but overdue updates to the #BeethovenSonataCycleSurvey: ionarts.blogspot.com/2018/04/beet... ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/06/beet... Finally included Levit in Part 9; smaller fixes there and in Part 8. Bigger updates are planned. (Info always welcome!)

Pathetic #Weidringer [TM] for the last evening of IvorLevit's Beethoven- Sonata-Semi-Cycle at the Musikverein Wien ...but we also have the review, too: www.diepresse.com/41337472/mus...

Soviet30s #Weidringer [TM] at the Konzerthaus w/#GidonKremer, ElimChan & the Vienna SO.

Double #Weidringer [TM] at the Wiener Staatsoper for Zemlinsky/Bartók

#morninglistening to Zemlinsky's Songs after Tuscan Folk Melodies ahead of tonight's FlorentineTragedy. Wonderful lineup of singers on this DG gem. Amzn: amzn.to/4deVZDw

Season-opener of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - RSO Wien & inaugural concert of its new CD, Markus Poschner. Review for Die Presse, full version online-only (due to last-minute obit in the print-version): www.diepresse.com/41319315/rso...

#morninglistening to arguably the one among #GlennGould's #JSBach recordings, that he was meant to record the most! TheArtOfTheFugue Amzn: amzn.to/4cB5f4l

Inaugural #Weidringer [TM] for Markus Poschner 's first concert as the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - RSO Wien Chief Conductor.

Mahleria-#Weidringer [TM] at the Musikverein Wien w/the Wiener Symphoniker & Popelka.

#morninglistening to the cello music of #PaulBenHaim w/ @ofer.canetti, F.Kienle & @philharmonie.reutlingen. Amzn: amzn.to/3TAWW25 Frankenburger-music...

Styrian #Weidringer [TM] in Graz from the season opener of the Graz Philharmonic w/a world premiere of Friedrich Cerha's, Buchbinder, and Zarathustra.

Just another Monday for @diepressecom.bsky.social but perhaps unique among newspapers worldwide these days: 1 ⅓ pages of classical music plus ½ a page theater. Blimey, I'm proud of that rag!

#morninglistening to Mahler's #DasKlagendeLied (2-mvt version) w/the viennaphilharmonic under Boulez at the salzburgerfestspiele on DG. Röschmann, Larsson, Botha. Amzn: amzn.to/4rzac3X Little recap after @tonkunstlerorchestra played it last night.

#morninglistening to baroque viol-master & composer Gottfried"got-fingered" Finger. Oulmouc-born, James II court composer. Noyce. Amzn: amzn.to/3VjdOLl

Mark Swed retires www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Autumn Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) **** listening to the autumn wind speaking through the reeds Basho

Tenorissimo #Weidringer [TM] at the Wiener Konzerthaus for Piotr Beczała and the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

#morninglistening to #Celibidache in what I actually find to be one of the more gripping Franck-Symphony renderings. W/the swedishradiosymphony on DGclassics. Amzn: amzn.to/4xIKpHS

#morninglistening to 20 amazing fingers in #Prokofiev & #Ravel, courtesy MarthaArgerich & MikhailPletnev on this cracking album on DG. Ivory fireworks. Amzn: amzn.to/4yY7fMU

Surprised-by-Beauty #Weidringer [TM] for the Exilarte Zentrum anniversary concert w/the Wiener Symphoniker at the Wiener Konzerthaus feat. WilhelmGrosz & HansWinterberg.

And the review for @diepressecom.bsky.social to go with the picture: www.diepresse.com/41288470/40-... Argerich & die Gerzenbergbande.

Familial #Weidringer [TM] for LaMartha Argerich and the Gerzenbergs for four to eight hands at the Wiener Konzerthaus

#morninglistening to IsabelleFaust's splendid #JSBach ViolinConcertos & assorted orchestral works w/ @Akamus on @harmoniamundi. Speedy, not rushed, lively, not hyperactive. Amzn: amzn.to/3VtNJcx

Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks - FT video produced by me, written by @chriscook.news & @chassnews.bsky.social FT story (1st 300 clicks free): as.ft.com/r/c4fd2c08-5...

There's my @opermagazin.bsky.social review of LaCalisto @theateranderwien.bsky.social, after all: Begeisterung und Enttäuschung – sie können nah beieinander liegen... www.oper-magazin.de/kritiken/auf...

Fateful #Weidringer [TM] at the Národní divadlo Brno for the Festival Janáček Brno preview with "Osud", Janáček's meta-opera

With Love from Brno - for a bit of Leoš Janáček, namely "Fate" ("Osud") at the @ndbrno: A preview to the Janáček Festival in Brno

HIP #Weidringer [TM] for a Mahler 9th w/the Mahler Academy Orchestra & von Steinaecker. Complete nonsense, of course, but they know that.

HIP #Weidringer [TM] for a Mahler 9th w/the Mahler Academy Orchestra & von Steinaecker. Complete nonsense, of course, but they know that.

#morninglistening to #GlennGould's #JSBach recordings, namely the 1st book of the WTC. It behoofs us to remember how much this departed, at the time, from either dry faux-authenticity and overromanticized slop. Amzn: amzn.to/4cB5f4l Also, there's the wonderful booklet text by TimPage.

Starry #Weidringer [TM] for Cavalli's "LaCalisto" in StefanHerheim's new production at the MusikTheater an der Wien

#morninglistening to a welcome new recording of ArthurHonegger's jeannedarcaubûcher from Vasilek & the CzechPhil on animalmusic Amzn: amzn.to/4xwORcS #swissclassicalmusic @SurprisedBeauty