Sad news: organist Catherine Ennis has died.
Post #1,550: Many Happy Returns to Harry Christophers, 67 today.
Boxing Day!
Many Happy Returns, and also a Happy Christmas, to conductor Jonathan Nott, 58 today.
Jonathan tells me that he's in Tokyo for Beethoven 9 with the TSO of which he is music director.
Inspired Themes from the Inspired Films: The Fantastic Strings of Felix Slatkin. Enjoy!
Felix Slatkin The following link is to Leonard Slatkin's website. https://www.leonardslatkin.com/december-2020/
The Morecambe & Wise Show: André Previn conducts Grieg’s Piano Concerto … by Grieg.
Just watched (for the umpteenth time) on BBC Two this timeless sketch from 1971, a classic, Previn brilliant. There appears to be no YouTube posting available for me to link to; so, instead, here’s one to the full BBC broadcast (Previn starts about twenty minutes in):...
Celibidache Christmas Cheer: Let’s lighten the mood and scintillate to Celibidache conducting Enescu’s First Romanian Rhapsody: now republished as a regular tonic.
George Enescu, 1881-1955, pictured. 1978, Bucharest, Sergiu Celibidache (1912-96), a native of Romania, if particularly associated today with orchestras in Stuttgart and Munich, and not forgetting some remarkable LSO appearances, here conducts the George Enescu...
Sad news: Ivry Gitlis has died at the age of 98.
A great loss... at least we have Gitlis's recordings. http://www.colinscolumn.com/many-happy-returns-to-ivry-gitlis-98-today/
Holiday Musical Greetings from The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
"The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra offers their Holiday gratitude to The Vienna Philharmonic Society with the latest installment of their Musical Greetings series. The video contains two romantic and lyrical pieces played by the Orchestra’s Concertmaster Rainer...