"This music blows"

So said an instant message to the radio station during the 3rd movement of Mahler's 4th.  Maybe it was the high wailing of the strings conductor Harold Farberman perhaps overly emphasized?  Or maybe the adagio in general was just too boring?  Or maybe our unknown sender was mortified that something-which-smelled-of-classical was being broadcast on his college radio station?  Probably the latter.  Converting the college kids is no easy task, especially when they tune in during the midst of an epic, 22 minute super slow movement.  Feedback like that is always appreciated, but next time tell us why Mahler blew. 

Show #35

Hour 1

Chopin, Frederic.  Ballade #4, f minor.  Krystian Zimerman, p.  (Deutsche Grammophon.) 

Zemlinsky, Alexander.  "Lyric Symphony in seven songs to poems by Tagore."  Op. 18.  Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Antony Beaumont, cond.  (Chandos.)

Hour 2

David Byrne.  "High Life for Nine Instruments." Balanescu Quartet (Argo.)

Bloch, Ernest.  Suite for Viola and Piano.  Daniel Raiskin (viola) Lisa Smirnova (piano) (Arte Nova)

Brahms, Johanness.  Piano Trio #3 in c minor.  Renaud and Gautier Capacon, Nicholas Angelich, p.  (Virgin)

Hour 3

Handel, GF.  Concerto Gross Op. 6, #5.  Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze, dir (Harmonia Mundi)

Mahler, Gustav.  Symphony #4, movements 3 and 4.  Harold Farberman, cond.  London Symphony Orchestra (Vox)