Here’s my list of recommended listening sources (at least as available on iTunes) for this weekend’s upcoming Classical 6 subscription series. [Read more →]

It’s been a pretty low-key couple of days.  I’m anticipating a burst of posts on some Portland classical music scene issues shortly.  For now, here’s what’s playing on my iPod today:

• Bartòk - Concerto for Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustvo Dudamel, cond.
  DG Concerts (iTunes store exclusive download)
• Barber - Knoxville, Summer of 1915: Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Orchestra of St. Luke’s, David Zinman, cond.
  Nonesuch
• Eric Whitacre - When David Heard: Polyphony, Stephen Layton, dir.
  Hyperion
• Roberto Sierra - Viola Concerto (2006): Roberto Diaz, viola; I Musici Montreal, Yuli Turovsky, cond.
  Live recording from  International Viola Congress in Montreal (avail at composer’s website)
• Journey - Journey’s Greatest Hits
• Dvorak - String Quartet Op. 105: Hagen Quartet (DG)
• Dolly Parton - The Grass is Blue