Mahler and Voices

On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday March 3rd, 5:00 to 6:00 pm… It’s been said that Edwin Fleisher did not like vocal or choral music. Whether a few people have told me this, or one person told me a few times, I can’t recall, but it explained...

A Symphony Bigger Than the World

[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 27 Jul 2015.] Mahler once told Sibelius how big a symphony needs to be, but Mahler’s own second symphony, called the “Resurrection,” is even bigger. WRTI’s Kile Smith considers the Mahler 2nd, its themes of life and death…...

Bach Old and New

Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday October 4th at 5 pm Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Mahler. Suite from the Orchestral Works of Bach. Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bach, arr. Stokowski. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565....

Jean Sibelius

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011, 5:00-6:00 p.m Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). Nightride and Sunrise, Op. 55 (1907). London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult. Vanguard 1202, Tr 2. 14:02 Sibelius. Romance in C, Op. 42 (1904). Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi. Bis 252,...