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Just bought the old Decca Solti recording of Verdi's Aida and Tullio Serafin's Puccini La Boheme. Fantastic recordings. £7 apiece.
Is that the Aida with Leontyne Price? That recording of La Bohème was the very first CD I bought, and has a fabulous cast; a favourite listen. Indeed it is, IGI. Just approaching the final scene!! Great music making. What a cast as you say. Have to play the Puccini tomorrow methinks. Ah yes - the incomparable Rita Gorr giving a roof-raising performance as Amneris. Wonderful stuff. (Pity the trumpets in the triumph scene are so shockingly out of tune, though) |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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I did'nt mind that at all because the recording as a whole was just a sheer joy!! I dont say that very often either!
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« Reply #3287 on: 23:27:56, 18-08-2008 » |
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Tks y all for yr Martinu recommendations - obviously lots to listen too now!!
Now playing from this mornings Classical Collection - Concerto for Organ by Kenneth Leighton
Quite interesting on first hearing with lots happening - would also recommend Kenneth Leighton church music with
the Choir of St Pauls Cathedral with John Scott conducting- some really haunting singing here imo
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« Reply #3288 on: 23:29:26, 18-08-2008 » |
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I like the evensong settings, especially the second service.
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #3289 on: 09:12:41, 19-08-2008 » |
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PS for PW. I expect my band could've done a better job, then  !! |
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« Reply #3290 on: 23:59:38, 19-08-2008 » |
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I haven't heard others in their series, but gave way to the itchy credit card last week for this:  |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #3291 on: 14:11:23, 20-08-2008 » |
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A performance of Mahler's Symphony No 3 on DVD, recorded at the Lucerne Festival in 2007. Claudio Abbado, gaunt and majestic, conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in a deeply expressive performance. Memorable.
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« Reply #3292 on: 14:54:38, 20-08-2008 » |
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Ive seen that perfoirmance on Sky Arts, and did'nt he look ill!! Hope he is better now.
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« Reply #3293 on: 17:39:00, 20-08-2008 » |
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SkyArts have shown Abbado's Lucerne performances of Nos.2 & 7, but I wasn't aware No.3 had been screened yet.
I'm sure those of us who saw Abbado conduct this orchestra in Mahler 3 at last year's Proms will be keen to see this, Stanley. Good to see that he's back conducting the Lucerne FO this summer.
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« Reply #3294 on: 18:14:44, 20-08-2008 » |
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SkyArts have shown Abbado's Lucerne performances of Nos.2 & 7, but I wasn't aware No.3 had been screened yet.
I'm sure those of us who saw Abbado conduct this orchestra in Mahler 3 at last year's Proms will be keen to see this, Stanley. Good to see that he's back conducting the Lucerne FO this summer.
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« Reply #3295 on: 19:59:36, 20-08-2008 » |
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Berg's piano sonata! I LOVE IT! (wish I could play it)
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« Reply #3296 on: 20:19:40, 20-08-2008 » |
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Berg's piano sonata! I LOVE IT! (wish I could play it)
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« Reply #3297 on: 21:15:53, 20-08-2008 » |
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NS WF Bach Sinfonias Hartmut Haenchen (no relation to the Kuijken brothers  ) with the CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra |
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« Reply #3298 on: 21:35:00, 20-08-2008 » |
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Berg's piano sonata! I LOVE IT! (wish I could play it)
Es ist nicht so schwierig, oder? (Ich hab's dennoch nie versucht.) I've played parts of it, but a lot of it is enmeshed in a way that doesn't always fit under the fingers particularly naturally. In order to bring out all of the polyphonic voices you need careful weighting and balance, and the chords aren't always completely obvious. Another pianist will come along in a minute and say I'm talking rubbish, but that's just my experience! I'm listening to Die Walküre now. |
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« Reply #3299 on: 01:17:46, 21-08-2008 » |
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I'm listening to Die Walküre now. Welche Artistes? Verklärte Nacht in the cleared-woodland estate now. Beginning to feel like it in reality too. Following that it will be Mahler 3 from Proms 2007. The goal of all this chunky music late at night? I need to recapture humane sleeping habits. |
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