Miguel Andrade

Emanuel Ax is a close musical partner of Yo-Yo Ma, and a fixture at Tanglewood. Williams and Ax are likely good friends.

I'm glad I'm not on that alternate universe and that he's doing all this arrangements for Mutter and Markings and the superb Violin Concerto No. 2 (which, along with the Cello Concerto, are my two favorite Williams pieces).

I wouldn't mind using that as an excuse to visit Vienna again

Why would anyone want to do that? You don't like this version, you have a few others to enjoy.

If it's something later in 2024, it's natural that we still don't have any further info on dates.

This is just like the article from a year or so ago, stating appearances in Lisbon and Singapore (or somewhere else in the far east). The former was just a live to projection of Return of the Jedi (which I attended), the result of very poor researching. The later was the same situation. I'm sure this is likely the same. But the suggestion of future bookings in Vienna and Berlin do sound more plausible.

At the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., during the 90th birthday celebration, with Mutter and Ma, Denéve conducting.

The new arrangements are awesome, in my personal opinion. Scherzo just blew me away! The Schindler's List Trio and the Duel duo concertante were already performed before as mentioned elsewhere, but what a joy to have a proper recording of those. On a side note, I really don't understand what's the problem. Pay a one month subscription and enjoy the concert. Musicians and labels are entitled to have a living... and they do because we are their clients. I gladly pay for my discs and on-line concerts and will continue doing so. Occasionally, some are for free, others aren't, and that's just fine.

I noticed some but was too lazy 🦥

Has been for a while. I even contributed with the cover.

And Munich.

Presto has it available in digital format: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9541273--anne-sophie-mutter-mutter-s-virtuosi

"Come Tuesday" was newly recorded for this set and was a private song Williams and the Bergmans wrote for the late Barbara Ruick. Also, a few songs were never available on CD/digitally, just on vinyl. And the disc 20's previous released stuff came from all over the place, most surely there will be something one didn't already have. As for the Sinfonietta, this is actually a new transfer from the original master source, instead of using the Japanese transfer from some 15 years ago.

Surely not everything... There is one totally unreleased track on disc 20, plus some rather rare stuff too that I'm pretty sure some of the most die hard fans may have not heard before.

Another performance with Martha Argerich, Misha Maisky and Anne-Sophie Mutter

Yeah, that's why the name stuck with me. They had some trio shows earlier in the year, the performance of the Williams was an encore... I'll look further for that. Found it: Argerich, Mutter and Maisky... So much talent playing Williams!

Still regarding the Schindler's List trio... World premiere: https://www.instagram.com/p/CoDIJfeOMdS/ I do recall that Mutter also performed it, maybe with Martha Argerich. I'm pretty sure of seeing a short video of it taken from the audience view point, but can't find it anymore.

The concert will be streamed December 30 on Stage+ The trio version of Schindler's List as been performed at least twice before.

Does this helps you?

Ordered! What additional tax? Quartet operates in Spain, so you're placing the order within the borders of the EU.

Great to see Williams will be conducting the concert works part of the program. And I believe this will be the first time he conducts Just Down West Street ☺️

There are some exquisite pressings that are almost as silent as a CD. My copy of Pops Around the World (Dutch pressing) is a great example of that. On the other hand, the French pressing of With a Song in my Heart, despite looking great as a gatefold release, is to be avoided at all costs.

I confess I listen mostly to it on CD or Blu-ray, but the vinyl sounded decent to me last time I played it.

I've got countless bootlegs from Amazon, Discogs and also major specialist soundtrack retailers. So that doesn't really prove anything.

Back when the Fenstein recording came out it was mentioned this was a 70's project. I seem to recall the original thing being called a song cycle and, for whatever reason, being in four parts come to mind (I'm likely misremembering...). On the Alan Bergman interview it's obvious it was a long 10-minute piece. It would be great to have that available on it original full form, even more because, the way Bergman says it, I'm inclined to believe that what we know is just a derivation from some of that material wrote back in 1974 and not a selection lifted directly from it.