Coming up Nov. 9-11, Carl St.Clair will lead Pacific Symphony in its first ever performances of Anton Bruckner’s colossal Symphony No. 8. The performances will include a design element, which Carl talks about above, on a recent visit to the
Playlist: Great moments in Bruckner (scherzos) from YouTube
Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony give the orchestra’s first performances of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 on Nov. 9-11. To help you prepare, we’ve selected four wonderful examples of Bruckner’s music (all of them scherzos) from YouTube.
Video: Toscanini conducts ‘Pines”
An oldie but a goodie, Toscanini conducting the end of Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome,” orchestra and maestro about to jump out of their collective skin. How could you not play for this guy?
Audio: Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9
https://youtu.be/GdXj0nR6VF8 One of the earlier of Mozart’s masterpieces, the Piano Concerto No. 9, K. 271, completed when he was 21. Here’s an exceptional performance from the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner, with Alfred Brendel
Audio: Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
I won’t categorize this as a “neglected symphony,” but it doesn’t turn up on concert programs that often, especially when you consider how good it is. The piece is in a single movement; it’s the last symphony Sibelius wrote (in
Bergmann takes over for Previn, premiere and all
By TIMOTHY MANGAN “Jumping in as a replacement is always scary and fun at the same time,” conductor Rune Bergmann said recently, on the phone from Calgary. The lively and amiable Norwegian musician, the new music director of the Calgary
Video: Overture to ‘Die Fledermaus’
Pacific Symphony opens its Pops season tonight and tomorrow with a program headlined by David Foster. But conductor Albert-George Schram and the orchestra begin the program with the Overture to “Die Fledermaus” by Johann Strauss, Jr., which for my money
Great moments in film music: ‘The Big Store’
For the fun of it, another in an occasional series … Chico and Harpo Marx play piano four hands in “The Big Store.”
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Review: Louisville Orchestra, Teddy Abrams: ‘All In’
By TIMOTHY MANGAN Teddy Abrams is the 30-year-old music director of the venerable Louisville Orchestra and he’s at least a quadruple threat: Conductor, composer, clarinetist and pianist. The young man, a protege of Michael Tilson Thomas, is stirring things up