Besides the few brave musicians who have programmed concerts on a weekend when our collective attention is pastoral rather than aesthetic, there is some fine watching and listening available online — meaning this music is totally mobile.
- Classical Music 101: What Does A Conductor Do? - June 17, 2019
- Classical Music 101 | What Does Period Instrument Mean? - May 6, 2019
- CLASSICAL MUSIC 101 | What Does It Mean To Be In Tune? - April 23, 2019
For anyone who needs high-def audio with their music, the Concertgebouw’s 125th anniversary concert on medici.tv is a treat. It can be streamed on demand for free.
I finally had a chance to sample the substantial programme of Serious Classical Music 101 led by conductor Mariss Jansons.
Thomas Hampson, who has reached that golden intersection between experience and ability, does beautiful things with Mahler. Lang Lang plays Prokofiev’s technically challenging Piano Concerto No. 3 with the ease of someone typing his shoelaces — and with fine musicality, too. Janine Jansen is a sweet treat in Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.
To mix a pâtissier’s metaphors, the icing on this very rich layer cake is brilliant work by Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on the suite from Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, which needs to breathe and rise like a fine soufflé.
You’ll find it here.
Independent critic and blogger Jessica Duchen yesterday shared with the world a handheld pirate recording of tenor Jonas Kaufmann singing Schubert’s Winterreise in recital last month in Vienna with pianist Helmut Deutsch.
Kauffmann was getting over a cold, he said, but you’d never know it. There’s a lot of audience noise, but it didn’t bother me. Both singer and pianist get everything right. Listen and weep:
John Terauds
- Classical Music 101: What Does A Conductor Do? - June 17, 2019
- Classical Music 101 | What Does Period Instrument Mean? - May 6, 2019
- CLASSICAL MUSIC 101 | What Does It Mean To Be In Tune? - April 23, 2019
