featuring Igor Levit “If you’re ever in that part of town, you should try…” It’s a small world, but it isn’t that small. You probably won’t accidentally find yourself in Taipei anytime soon, but if you were to, you might learn that … Continue reading Bayerisches Staatsorchester in Taipei
performed by the Royal Philharmonic under Thomas Beecham, Jascha Heifetz, violin It’s been piano, piano, piano… Concertos, sonatas, other stuff. Was definitely on a piano kick for a while, and still have lots of other pieces on the back burner that didn’t … Continue reading Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in Em, op. 64
performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitsky,or below with Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. And Prokofiev is wonderful. This one has also been stewing for a while, waiting to get … Continue reading Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D ‘Classical’
Fugue for Thought 