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« Reply #2070 on: 13:27:45, 31-05-2007 »
You're there! Well hunted down. Verdi was, of course, our mystery composer:

Gounod - A la Mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc or Rossini’s Giovanna d’Arco Cantata (Giovanna d’Arco)
Liszt – Hunnenschlacht (Attila)
Vaughan Williams – Sir John in Love (Falstaff)
Berlioz – Le Corsaire (Il Corsaro)
Offenbach – Les Brigands (I Masnadieri)
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Macbeth)
Sullivan – Di Ballo or Menotti’s Amelia al Ballo (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Rossini – Otello (Otello)

Interesting that the Rossini Otello is set entirely in Venice, the Verdi entirely in Cyprus. I like both works, but the Verdi is, for me, as near perfection as you're going to get in an opera.
The ENO showed that Sir John in Love is stageable/ marketable and it was good to see a different version of the story, but again, Verdi's inspirational here. Who was it who commented that, in Verdi's three Shakespeare operas, Macbeth doesn't really stand up that well to the original play, Otello matches Othello, but Falstaff surpasses the Shakespearean originals The Merry Wives and Henry IV?
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« Reply #2071 on: 13:34:26, 31-05-2007 »
I admit with shame that I find Rossini's OTELLO superior to Verdi's  Embarrassed

I still have to hear the Salieri FALSTAFF to judge which operatic version is the best  Grin

I was disappointed when you'd rejected my HAROLD EN ITALIE: I was thinking of Verdi's AROLDO at the time Cheesy
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« Reply #2072 on: 13:38:32, 31-05-2007 »
Quote from: Parsifal1882 on 13:34:26, 31-05-2007
I was disappointed when you'd rejected my HAROLD EN ITALIE: I was thinking of Verdi's AROLDO at the time Cheesy

Oh very good! I hadn't thought of that link!!

Have you heard Nicolai's Merry Wives? Any good?
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« Reply #2073 on: 13:48:01, 31-05-2007 »
Oh, yes! I have the EMI recording with Gottlob Frick as Falstaff (conducted by Heger).
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« Reply #2074 on: 15:14:22, 31-05-2007 »
Another quartet to solve:

Prokofiev
Johann Strauss II
Bax
Satie
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« Reply #2075 on: 16:36:34, 31-05-2007 »
Bax: November Woods
Strauss II: Tales from the Vienna Woods

No?
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« Reply #2076 on: 16:48:17, 31-05-2007 »
Not woods, no, but there is a connection to the natural world.

November Woods is a good piece. There are some lovely Bax tone poems - The Garden of Fand being a particular favourite, along with Tintagel.
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« Reply #2077 on: 17:16:16, 31-05-2007 »
Satie: Pieces in the Shape of a Pear
Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges

This must be worse than woods!  Undecided
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« Reply #2078 on: 17:18:50, 31-05-2007 »
Carry on. Let your taste buds lead the way!!
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« Reply #2079 on: 17:28:54, 31-05-2007 »
Bax: The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew? (I know it's wrong, but that's the closest I could get to, and my knowlege of Strauss II is almost nil, except for FLEDERMAUS!).
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« Reply #2080 on: 17:30:16, 31-05-2007 »
Not pine trees no, we're staying with fruits.

So oranges and ...?

.... and pears?

 Cheesy
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« Reply #2081 on: 17:33:14, 31-05-2007 »
Wish we had Wagner (Freia's apples!).
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« Reply #2082 on: 17:33:36, 31-05-2007 »
Ah, we don't have Freia's, but...
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« Reply #2083 on: 17:34:38, 31-05-2007 »
Oh, silly me! Bax's Apple Blossom!
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« Reply #2084 on: 17:36:33, 31-05-2007 »
Of course!

Prokofiev – The Love for Three Oranges
J. Strauss II
Bax - Apple-Blossom-Time
Satie - Three pieces in the form of a pear
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