Music Listening Cottage
Description
Music Listening Cottage features a series of music listening experiences in a “listening room” which is part of a larger house in Kingston, Ontario. Selections will be drawn from an extensive library of over 600 great classical recordings to be played using a Thorens turntable, NAD CD player, Quad electrostatic speakers, and Bose bluetooth speaker (for online content). Composers include Mahler, Haydn, Elgar, Vierne, Bach, Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Reger, Grieg, Brahms, and more! The collection is detailed in an extensive spreadsheet created by the host. Coffee or tea, juice, and water will be provided. Seating is limited to three or four people, and can be expanded to eleven for live concerts on the piano by guest artists and other special events.
Coming up:
Artur Rubinstein plays Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Falla, with Jorda conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Artur Rubinstein plays works for solo piano by Granados, Falla, Albéniz, and Mompou
Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with Alirio Díaz on guitar and members of the Spanish National Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Artur Rubinstein plays Beethoven Sonatas: Moonlight, Op. 27, No. 2; Les Adieux, Op. 81a; Pathétique, Op. 13
two gatherings to listen to Elgar Symphony No. 1 and No. 2, conducted by either Boult, Previn, Downes (No. 2), Solti, Elgar, or Handley
January 21, a concert livestream
January 28, a gathering to listen to the Living Shakespeare abridged audio staging of The Tempest, featuring Mai Zetterling as Ariel
March 30, a morning live concert (tba); or a gathering to listen to one of two available recordings on vinyl of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in c minor (The Resurrection Symphony): conducted either by Otto Klemperer, The Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Hilde Rössl-Majdan; or by Georg Solti, The London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, with Heather Harper and Helen Watts
April 23, on Shakespeare’s traditional birthday, we will listen to a vinyl record of Walton, Music from Shakespearean Films: Original Scores from Sir Laurence Olivier's Richard III, Hamlet, Henry V, conducted by Walton, Philharmonia Orchestra, label is Angel Records
May 1, a morning gathering to listen to some selections for May Day, possibly including: a recording of the song The Maypole performed by the Exultate Chamber Singers, Bax’s Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex), Delius’s Upon Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, and a work by Vaughan Williams: either the organ prelude Rhosymedre, the symphonic impression In the Fen Country, The Lark Ascending , or Fantasia on Greensleeves
June 20-23, gatherings to listen to: the Living Shakespeare abridged audio staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Benjamin Britten’s opera based on the play, conducted by Britten and featuring Peter Pears
POST REVISED: January 18, 2024
PREVIOUS REVISION: January 12, 2024
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2024-01-19