It was a busy week! A special bonus episode of Classical Breakdown comes out next Tuesday. An episode on a piano concerto comes out the week after that 🎹😁

On Front Row Washington, made a GREAT episode featuring works by Carlos Simon and Chiarina Chamber Players. More later 😊

first fire 🥶

something i was listening to yesterday, the poulenc. vic firth on timpani, but poulenc treats it tamely.

great recording, and the organ in boston symphony hall is pretty stellar.

Also, a rare time i listen to non-opera mozart 😆 and for no real reason other than wanting to hear later mozart pc

I kind of forget about Montsalvatge from time to time, but this is a good recording and I do enjoy him. Angel sent me this, and I always recommend checking out Post Classical Ensemble in DC.

Copenhagen… i relisten to this 1x a year, it’s wonderful and the intonation is so good almost unfair 😭 🎻

I’ve been meaning to post more of what i’ve been listening to, and hopefully can find others that do the same.

After listening to MTT’s “Meditations on Rilke” 3 times in 24 hours, I naturally needed to re-listen to Mahler’s cycles. Ending with a Das Lied von der Erde I haven’t heard, Boulez/vien

forever in love with this recording. made the mistake of starting it earlier today knowing i will have to finish it😭

michael tilson thomas has such a way with mahler. i don’t know another who asks so little from the listener, he has you in his hands from the opening notes 🥹

this is realllllllllly nice

Especially Quasthoff, they captured something special with him. and the interaction between von Otter and wiener phil is exquisite

Listening to Sir Michael Tippet, who died in 1998 and seemed to hate technology and viewed art as something to use and push back against deleterious for humans technology. I wonder what he’d say about Palantir 😆

I had a great time speaking with Gianandrea Noseda about Mahler and Beethoven this week at Apple Classical! His new recording of Mahler 7 with the NSO is out now and definitely worth several listens. #todayatapple

yes, i believe his father made it when he was little. i think he played almost everything using it.

A reminder! I’ll be with conductor Gianandrea Noseda this Monday evening at Apple Carnegie Library to talk about a new recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, and features in the Apple Classical app.

Join me at Apple Carnegie Library on September 29 as I sit down with Gianandrea Noseda to discuss the legacy and sound of the National Symphony Orchestra! Enjoy a special live performance by members of the orchestra. Seats are limited, sign up and find more info below 👇

i like the idea that somewhere in her brain mahler 5 is bouncing around 😅

happy pride! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

a hero of mine is Ethel Smyth, who would throw rocks through windows of the men in political power working against equal human rights for women. she went to jail for it, and even conducted other imprisoned woman in a chorus from her cell.

I remember Felix Mendelssohn did some art as well, but I didn’t realize how great he was with this too!

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It’s still hard to think about Pippa when the weather gets real nice, nothing like being able to go on a long hack away from it all.

just listened to mahler 7 for a project next week. i’ve never played it and can’t even remember when i last heard it!

i also just received like 5 mahler box sets (i think it’s more actually) so i have a lot of listening ahead of me for this one 🙂 #mahler