The Music Antiquarian Blog

The musings of a classical music and jazz antiquarian and appraiser with an emphasis on historical composers, musicians, opera singers and ballet dancers; with a good bit of opinion of the World of classical music and opera today and everything else including the kitchen sink.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

HD Transmissions at the MET and the Real Loss of Revenue

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    For the last four years, I have been writing on and off to the Opera-L List that Peter Gelb's HD broadcasts will kill a major...
Monday, March 4, 2013

A Memory on Van Cliburn's passing

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Van Cliburn autographed photograph in a recording session with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra In June of 1986, I was li...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Mahler's Autographed Photograph to his Disciple, Arnold Schoenberg, a Perspective on the Mystery

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The 1907 Moriz Nahr autographed presentation photograph of Gustav Mahler inscribed to Arnold Schoenberg Gustav Mahler at the end ...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Return of the Opportunity to be a Back Yard Impresario!

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 Lot 5936-333   Remember the tale of the Dutch opera impresario who had shut down operations of his stadium opera company?  He lis...
Monday, August 20, 2012

The Liszt Sonata in B minor performed from the manuscript!

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I was recently made aware of a YouTube video by our friend pianist Professor Claudius Tanski of the Salzburg, Mozarteum performing th...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

If You Like Mahler's 1st, An Unusual Recording You Should buy!

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Every once in a blue moon, I'll take a risk on a recording that could possibly hit the trash can after a first listen.  I happened ...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Bernard Parronchi story updated with Youtube videos

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Photograph of Bernard Parronchi courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives I wrote a post in January regarding Boston Symphon...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Elena Gerhardt sings Brahms great lied "Von Ewiger Liebe"

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Elena Gerhardt may not be a name well recognized today except by record collectors.  However, at one point in time, she was the most ...

Artur Schnabel on Johannes Brahms

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The legendary pianist once described the Johannes Brahms he knew very succinctly.  He broke the composer down into the three "B...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Released for the first time in digital format Herta Glaz sings Schubert

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Madame Glaz (1910-2006)  outside the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House The name Herta Glaz (sometimes Hertha) is today perhaps l...
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