17. Best quartet (Ébène)—best quintet (Schubert)—doesn't get any better www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEAx...
YouTube video by Quatuor Ébène - Topic
16. Pogorelich—the "Ondine" is weird, the "Scarbo" is terrific www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACE...
YouTube video by Ivo Pogorelich - Topic
15. Amazing that this is a live, filmed performance with beautiful video and audio, instead of an edited studio recording—page turner and all! (And "Le baiser" is at the right tempo, which no one else ever does) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXui...
YouTube video by OUR Recordings
14. As my students learn freshly every single year, if you don't like this extremely cheesy song then we can't be friends www.youtube.com/watch?v=DswE...
YouTube video by Anne Sofie von Otter - Topic
13. Controversially I realize, this is the only finale of Mahler 3 for me: a snail riding on the back of a sloth down a glacier covered in molasses, but in, like, an epic way
YouTube video by New York Philharmonic - Topic
12. Sorry for Wagner but I just love Theo Adam here, the relative lightness (and personality) of his voice compared to the ridiculous profundo booming you hear in this role sometimes—and Böhm's pacing, and the SCREAMING first violins in the interlude www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GLC...
YouTube video by Theo Adam - Topic
it was like all I listened to for a year
JEG opened my eyes so thoroughly to what faster tempos and smaller ensembles could do for this music, but I do think he overdoes the velocity at times
I will check it out! Not on my radar to date.