Beethoven

Homero Francesch is the piano soloist in this performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Jeunesse Choir.by KenWe have a great musical fantasy coming up Sunday -- Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, so I thought tonight we would review the two wonderful fantasies we've already heard.THERE WAS, FOR ONE, LISZT'S HUNGARIAN FANTASIAWe first heard it in the August 2010 post "The piano-and-orchestra Liszt -- the

Otto KlempererBEETHOVEN: The Creatures of Prometheus (ballet), Op. 43: OverturePhilharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, cond. EMI, recorded Nov. 25, 1957New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, cond.

by KenNothing fancy tonight. It's even music we've heard before: the always-uplifting Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. We're just going to listen to two recordings, which actually have a connection, which we'll talk about in this week's Sunday Classics post.