Let’s hope so. This performance sold out months ago.
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CD on DG
Zurich & Berlin (Faure)
April/May 2015
both Ravel concertos plus Faure’s Ballade in F-sharp for piano. Lovely performance!!!
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I don’t have Presto’s page pulled up on my desktop anymore, but I think it listed both pianists, making me think it was probably a combination of at least a couple of previous albums.
Yes, nice music. And here’s another for just the peace side of things:
Frankly, I don’t care what Bouska used as a title for her album. I just very much like the music she selected and find her performances quite engaging. Perhaps she should have called it “My solace during isolation due to the pandemic.” 
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That’s on the album.
Sometimes a simple and unambiguous title helps. Here’s one. No confusion here.
I can’t think of an album with a more varied selection of music, from Bach to Jobim and MMA’s own compositions. Heard them play it all, and more, and it was a lot of fun.
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And now for something totally different…
Randomly playing stuff in my local library, discovering old stuff
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Ditto!
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I always thought that Piazzolla isn’t appreciated enough in North America or Europe. Because he did tango, he somehow isn’t a serious composer. Ha!
If I got stuck on a desert island, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons would be the absolute last of my choices—maybe not even on any list, and that’s harsh coming from a violinist—but P’s Cuatro estaciònes porteñas, a takeoff on Vivaldi, would be near the top.
Give it a listen if you can. I own a few other recordings, this one has the right tango energy and tempo I feel.
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CD on Ondine
Vinius, Lithuania
June 2021
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b. 1973)
hard name to pronounce…very talented composer!
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Playing it right now on Idagio. Heavenly!
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This is the only version of the Four Seasons that hasn’t worn out its welcome in our home. Somehow the arrangements and new instrumentation manage to overcome overexposure ennui.
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Perlman/Previn/Pittsburgh Sibelius concerto on Angel, 1980. Decent recording marred by Angel’s notoriously noisy surfaces.
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New Widmann cadenza for the Beethoven violin concerto!!! Recorded in DSD256 and available on native DSD. How wonderful to have a modern cadenza. Am tired of the same Joachim cadenza over and over access over again. Last innovative guy was Ricci who wrote his own
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