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Author Topic: PIKOVAYA DAMA ("The Queen Of Spades")  (Read 109 times)
Reiner Torheit
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« on: 13:37:07, 09-10-2007 »
A nice clip (including Regine Crespin, in latter-end career as the grandmother, although she has nothing to sing in this scene) of QUEEN OF SPADES has popped-up recently on YouTube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AxBmZvtxzWo

Does anyone else hear the sound-world of Katerina Izmailova (another opera in which a tenor breaks into a woman's bedroom, although in appreciably different circumstances) in this music?   Particularly the bass clarinets etc?
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« Reply #1 on: 14:07:58, 09-10-2007 »
Many thanks for this clip, Reiner! Smiley

What a funny opera this is: when the Countess is collapsing, the music reminds me strongly of a Roadrunner cartoon.



I see now that there's a lot more Chrespin material on Youtube!
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