Five top musical April Fools
main1 Home-download vinyl, right here.
2 EU standardisation for musical pitch here.
3 Sweden clones new line of Birgit Nilssons here.
4 Classics to make light work here.
5 Vienna Philharmonic takes up residency in Florida.
Hang on, that last one’s apparently true.
I used to tell my violinist friends that a previously undiscovered violin concerto by Rachmaninoff had been unearthed by Russian scholars.
– Toscanini recording of Tristan: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Apr05/Wagner_Tristan_Toscanini.htm
– Boulez preparing Vaughan-Williams cycle: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=pl#!searchin/rec.music.classical.recordings/boulez$20vaughan/rec.music.classical.recordings/jx9qiRNZF24/1DZkWv47mlAJ
Thanks: “wordless soprano soloist singing in her native French” is a very nice touch.
Here is a good one: http://allisyar.com/2015/04/01/breaking-shocking-allegations-at-la-opera-countertenor-says-dont-judge-me-as-executive-gives-terse-denial/ .
Dear Mr. Lebrecht, thank you for the wonderful promotion!
(And for free! )
So guys, if you wanna listen the concert of Vienna Philharmonics, but do not plan to fly over to Austria- come to Naples, Fl!