Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2025

[MickyD]

... thank you for flagging this up [Sophie Dervaux] - I don't think I wd have encountered it otherwise. It is a delicious disc

Have you got all 5 CDs of Azzolini's cycle of bassoon concertos on Naive?

[vinteuil]

Have you got all 5 CDs of Azzolini's cycle of bassoon concertos on Naive?

... o yes!!

[Nick Armstrong]

…and he was incorrect in initially telling us that Muti had been music director of the LPO instead of the Philharmonia.

Yes that made me flinch - the first time I made a special journey to London for a concert in my teens with a schoolmate was in the late ‘70s to a Muti/Philharmonia concert at the RFH… heaven knows what the programme was, but the charismatic swagger of the man, the attitude & whirling black curtains of hair (such a contrast with the white-haired old men on the covers of my parents’ LPs!) made a great impression.

At last, with holiday guests departed, I’ve caught up with my TV recording - he’s still got it, the decades and bags under the eyes notwithstanding.

What a Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka … that’s the performance that grabbed me at first hearing