Draußen grasten die Polizeipferde, wurden von dem Sozialmedienbeauftragten der Polizei auf dem Festspielhügel in Szene gesetzt, & kümmerten sich nicht um Wagner. Drinnen waren Kanzler & Wagnerianer versammelt & schauten „Meistersinger“. Premierenkritik:.

Amzn: Yes, it's muscular Mozart, to an extent, but it's better than Dresden China Mozart and plenty enjoyable!.

#morninglistening to the last discs of VladimirAshkenazy's Mozart Concertos w/the @philharmonia which are just absolutely fine. I love how Ashk. jams an abs. wild Fugue into the cadenza of K537, the "Coronation" Concerto!. #WolfgangAmadeusMozart #PianoConcerto

About last night @SbgFestival, via @DiePresseCom:. Igor Levit statt Evgeny Kissin: Gespreizter Schostakowitsch, geflüsterter Brahms.

Die Rezension zum Bild via @DiePresseCom: . Igor Levit statt Evgeny Kissin: Gespreizter Schostakowitsch, geflüsterter Brahms.

Coffee-infused #Weidringer[TM] for the (on paper, anyway) the Odd Couple tonight at the @SbgFestival. #salzburgerfestspiele

Amzn: Yes, the music has some merits. But we'd be better off discovering wrongly neglected works by lesser known composers than trying to convince ourselves that rightfully neglected pieces by the masters are actually precious, after all.

#morninglistening to WAMozart's "Bastien & Bastienne" w/the #bayerischesstaatsorchester. Charming? Yes. Quaint? Yes. Well sung? Yes. But what a sophomoric opera and "drama". Fit for a seven-year old with water on the brain as PGWodehouse might have opined. #KurtMoll #Mozart

Substitutional #Weidringer[TM] for Igor Levit at the @Sbg in DSCH & then some.

The right answer.

What is the music that's most widely popular among your friends that you thing is absolute garbage. ?. (You can name anything; it doesn't have to be Einaudi. ).

Amzn: A recording this old shouldn't be as good or as handily trouncing much of the competition. But there it is. .

#morninglistening to WilhelmKempff's D959 on DG. I reviewed this for ClassicsToday a while back and was impressed. But it's wild how good, light, lively, unassuming & RIGHT this is. #FranzSchubert #nowplaying

"Country (Ivory Coast) keeps own farmers in artificial poverty; surprised they don't like it.". Good @FT reporting, but curiously omits pointing to the obvious solution: stop price control! It's immoral, ineffective, counterproductive.

Christian Blex is the latest #YoungConductorsAward winner (formerly the "Kit-Kat Award", when Nestlé was still sponsoring) at the @SbgFestival. In the immediate, that's 15.000 smackers, a concert at the festival with the @rsowien and a CD from that performance.

Amzn: but then substituted only the 3rd movement; so this original version is 3/4 identical. Very minor difference. #FranzSchubert #nowplaying.

#morninglistening to #PaulBaduraSkoda's D959 for RCA (@sonyclassical). That's his 1nd take in his 1st, most agreeable Bösendorfer-cycle. He re-recorded this sonata in 1971 but then substituted only.

. Amzn: It's a very evenly fine performance, but the standout is the exquisitely judged Andantino. #FranzSchubert #NowListening.

#morninglistening to Schubert's D959 on what is pro'lly THE black horse cycle: MichaelEndres' on @capricciorec, replete w/Dances. #FranzSchubert #NowListening. It's a ver.

Amzn: Sound, both playing- and recorded. And the last two movements, esp., and much of the first, seems ideally created and propelled. #FranzSchubert #nowplaying.

#morninglistening to MartinHelmchen seriously good D959 for @pentatonemusic. There are more good ones than bad ones, I suppose, but this stands out for a couple reasons. #FranzSchubert #nowplaying