Botstein goes wild

[Ilja]

Lovers of the unsung will be glad to know that eMusic has just listed a veritable avalanche of live recordings made by Leon Botstein's American Symphony Orchestra. Se: http://www.emusic.com/artist/American-Symphony-Orchestra-MP3-Download/11486166.html. Included are, among others:
* Raff's The Tempest
* Marx' Herbstsinfonie
* Bantock's Prelude to 'The Bacchanals'
* Some Cowell symphonies
* Braunfels' Don Juan
* Brüll's overture Das goldene Kreuz
* Hausegger's Wieland der Schmied
* Rubin's Fourth Symphony, Dies Irae
* Paul von Klenau's Klein Idas Blumen
* Casella's Italia
and lots of others. Worth a peek.

[chill319]

How can I explain this to my better half? The dog ate my wallet?

[eschiss1]

How can I explain this to my better half? The dog ate my wallet?

It was getting bored with homework, you see- monotone diet.

[jimmosk]

Botstein's been high-profile of late (some kind of press tour??). See this interview on last week's Studio360: http://studio360.org/episodes/2010/08/13?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=%24{feed}&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+%24{studio360}+%28%24{Studio+360}%29

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[Ilja]

With eMusic price plans I think you can have most of it for under 20$. So the dog need not necessarily be implicated.

[Gareth Vaughan]

I wonder if Hiller's "Fall of Jerusalem" will become available. I hope so.

[febnyc]

I met Maestro Botstein once - in a delicatessen on upper Broadway in Manhattan.  He was eating a corned beef sandwich on which he spread, I am quite sure, mayonnaise!    So, he's as unabashedly non-mainstream in his dietary choices as he is in his concert programming.

[Pengelli]

So that's why I like haddock fillets with gravy!

[Mark Thomas]

Euch! That's not a good thing to read at breakfast time 

[Ilja]

I met Maestro Botstein once - in a delicatessen on upper Broadway in Manhattan.  He was eating a corned beef sandwich on which he spread, I am quite sure, mayonnaise!    So, he's as unabashedly non-mainstream in his dietary choices as he is in his concert programming.

He'd be mainstream here. The Dutch put mayonnaise on absolutely everything.

[khorovod]

I wonder if Hiller's "Fall of Jerusalem" will become available. I hope so.

I hope so too although I read in some article at the time of Botstein's performance that there were plans to release a (live) recording of it on CD. I have been keeping a keen eye out since for any news but I guess it must have been unsubstantiated rumour. The luddite in me would prefer a CD set and libretto/essay etc but I would make do with a download.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Oh, I agree strongly - a CD album with a well-written booklet + libretto would be ideal.

[JimL]

Euch! That's not a good thing to read at breakfast time 

Mark, is that German for "Yuck!"?

[Mark Thomas]

I find it works in any language...

[JimL]

I find it works in any language...

Yeah, but in German it would be pronounced "Oikh"!