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  • Michael Steinberg's Listener's Guides: Consisting of The Symphony and The Concerto 2-Volume Set
    Michael Steinberg's Listener's Guides: Consisting of The Symphony and The Concerto 2-Volume Set
    by Michael Steinberg
  • Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide
    Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide
    by Michael Steinberg

    Opera by Walter Braunfels “The Birds” from Aristophanes. Being staged in 2009 in LA Opera’s Recovered Voices program.

  • For The Love of Music: Invitations to Listening
    For The Love of Music: Invitations to Listening
    by Michael Steinberg, Larry Rothe
  • Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka
    Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka
    Deutsche Grammophon

    Maurizio Pollini, pianist. Claudio Abbado conducting the Chicago Symphony. The Anda recording is rightly renowned, but John finds this Pollini recording especially brilliant.

  • Bartok: The Piano Concertos / Anda, Fricsay, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin
    Bartok: The Piano Concertos / Anda, Fricsay, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin
    Deutsche Grammophon
  • Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy
    Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy
    EMI Classics Imports
  • Bartok: The String Quartets (1950 Recordings)
    Bartok: The String Quartets (1950 Recordings)
    by The Juilliard Quartet

    One of many complete recordings of Bartok quartets. Click the photo to see info on this album and then do a search for “bartok string quartets” and it’s a fair bet your favorite string quartet has recorded them.

  • The Copenhagen Ring: The Complete DVD Set
    The Copenhagen Ring: The Complete DVD Set
    starring Stig Andersen, Irenie Theorin, Gitta-Maria Sjoberg, Johan Reuter, Stephen Milling
  • Hindemith: The Long Christmas Dinner
    Hindemith: The Long Christmas Dinner
    Wergo Germany
  • Prokofiev - War and Peace / Bertini, Gunn, Kit, Mamsirova, Gouriakova, Brubaker, Paris Opera
    Prokofiev - War and Peace / Bertini, Gunn, Kit, Mamsirova, Gouriakova, Brubaker, Paris Opera
    starring Olga Gouriakova, Nathan Gunn, Robert Brubaker, Anatoli Kocherga, Yelena Obraztsova
  • Friedrich Schorr Sings Wagner
    Friedrich Schorr Sings Wagner
    Hanssler Classics

    Friedrich Schorr was a noted Wotan of the 30s and 40s. This recording features highlights from Die Meistersinger, The Flying Dutchman and a heart-rending Wotan’s Farewell.


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AfriClassical
A blog celebrating classical music by African American composers.

AL Daily
Substantial articles on a variety of academic and cultural topics, selected by the Chronicle of Higher Education staff.

Arts Journal
Maintains several blogs on visual arts, performing arts and architecture.

Music Behind Walls (Terezin Music)
About the musical life of prisoners inside the Theresianstadt (Terazin) concentration camp. Includes biographies of Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krasa, and Viktor Ullmann. Also includes a detailed list of musical works from the camp compiled by historian Joza Karas, and a study guide for Ullmann’s opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, or The Emperor of Atlantis.

Sign and Sight
German articles translated into English; several interesting classical music articles.