I'm The Problem

The Schlager Club 2017 brings you both home and lets your party become a perfect night. It shows itself again very flexibly, whether Apres ski, carnival or the next Mallorca season, with this compilation you are well equipped for all 3 party phases.

On the cover of this latest Red Seal twofer – I don’t much like using that word but I can’t really call this a double album any more – Martha Argerich takes top billing, rightly, to Ivry Gitlis, whose name is in smaller type underneath hers. Hence I’ve reproduced the two in the header of this review. But violinist manqué though I may be, how I wish I hadn’t had to.

In 1767 the Music Director of Hamburg, Georg Philipp Telemann, died. As his successor, his godson Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, was appointed. One of his duties was to compose and perform a setting of the Passion every year. In Hamburg the Passions were performed in a four-year cycle, in which the Gospels alternated, starting with St Matthew and closing with St John. Bach asked Telemann's grandson, Georg Michael, who had taken over his grandfather's duties for the time being, what the circumstances of Passion performances in Hamburg were, assuming his first duty was to compose a Passion for 1768. But his departure from Berlin was delayed and he arrived in Hamburg shortly before Easter 1768. Therefore his first Passion was the St Matthew Passion of 1769…
Johan van Veen

Max Reger - Orchestral Works
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Leif Segerstam
3xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 731 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: BIS # BIS-CD-9047 | Country/Year: Sweden 2013
Genre: Classical | Style: Late Romantic, Early 20th Century

"…As usual with this conductor, transparency of texture is paramount, often revealing details that go unnoticed in others’ readings, and his subtle plasticity of phrasing keeps the music fluid and moving forward. Thus in a work like the Mozart Variations, one may prefer the more straightforward conducting of Eduard van Beinum in the Guild set, but one will find much more to hear in the Segerstam performance…" ~Fanfare

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 8 in E flat "Symphony of a Thousand"
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 332 MB | Full Artwork: 98 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Pentatone "RQR" # PTC 5186 166 | Country/Year: Netherlands 2006, 1971
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Early 20th Century

"This is yet another triumph for PentaTone’s RQR series. With visionary conducting and exemplary playing and singing, this set is a treasure to listen to from both an audiophiles' and a musician’s perspective. (…) To sum up: for all Mahlerians, this is an essential addition to the discography." ~SA-CD.net

This is Dudamel’s first CD with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live at LA’s famed Disney Concert Hall as part of their epic 2012 Mahler Project, celebrating one of the most energetic and exciting musical partnerships of our times - The coming together of the very finest American orchestra, led with passion and vision by the unique force of nature that is Gustavo Dudamel.

The Flying Lesbians were a seven-woman German music group which existed from 1974 to 1977 and released an eponymous album in 1975. The album - as indie music production - ran very well, with ca 17.000 LP's sold. The Flying Lesbians functioned as a co-operative, wrote the lyrics in German and English, and composed all songs by themselves. For copyright purposes they worked under the joint pseudonym of "Emily Pankhurst".