by Paul E. Robinson

George Szell: A Life in Music
by Michael Charry
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011
412 pages
One of the conducting icons of my youth was George Szell. I had the good fortune to live within a few hundred miles of his home base in [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson

Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes Op. 23
Franck: Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra M. 46
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major S.125
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Anton Nel: piano
Austin Symphony Orchestra (ASO): Peter Bay, conductor
Michael and Susan [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson

Gounod: Symphony No. 1 in D major
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor Op. 33
Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane Op. 43 Suite No. 2
Gautier Capuçon: cello
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM): Michel Plasson, [...]

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