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« on: 08:39:30, 11-09-2007 » |
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The tutor for a weekend study course (5-7 Oct at Urchfont Manor, Devizes) is Tim Shuker and I wondered if anyone here knows him? The complete title for the course is 'Romantic Russian Composeres from Tchaikovsky to Rachmaninov'. It sounds interesting.
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« Reply #2 on: 10:59:54, 11-09-2007 » |
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Are you going on this course, Susan?
I remember you mentioned another one you'd been on a while ago (different lecturer?).
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« Reply #3 on: 19:56:55, 11-09-2007 » |
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Martle - Thank you for the link which I have looked at.
time_is_nw - Yes, I am going on the course. I booked up some time ago. I shall go to Salisbury by train where my daughter-in-law will pick up my friend and me and drive us to Devizes.
The Urchfont brochure has quite a few interesting music courses and events listed.
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #4 on: 21:14:33, 11-09-2007 » |
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Super repertoire to be studying, I hope you enjoy it! Borodin's symphonies are the great neglected masterpieces of Russian C19th, very well worth your listening-time if you get a chance? And if you can find it, Cui's one-act opera A FEAST IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE.
Why do they have no chips in Wiltshire? Because they 'as no Devizes for Chippenham, m'dearie-o...
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« Reply #5 on: 21:39:50, 11-09-2007 » |
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Reiner, are you actually Pam Ayres?  Susan, enjoy the course! Looks really interesting.  |
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« Reply #7 on: 21:55:20, 11-09-2007 » |
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IGI/Reiner
Was newly bowled over by the overture to Russlan & Ludmilla on R3 today. What a super, efficient and confident piece of showmanship that is for the 1840s! My question: is the opera any good, and if so can either of you (or anyone else) recommend a recording?
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« Reply #8 on: 22:00:47, 11-09-2007 » |
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Yes, a very good opera, martle. As for a recording... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00022M478/sr=8-1/qid=1189543441/ref=olp_product_details/203-4994897-1606365?ie=UTF8&qid=1189543441&sr=8-1&seller=Recorded from a Kirov stage production in Feb 1995, in the days when Philips issued loads of Gergiev recordings of classic Russian operas, and starring one Anna Netrebko, who first came to the notice of UK critics via this release; the late Alan Blyth, I think, in Gramophone: Let’s get things completely out of proportion, in the way for which we canary-fanciers are notorious, and draw attention first to a marvellous new soprano. At least, Anna Netrebko, the Lyudmila here, is, as far as I can see, new to the Gramophone Database and, as far as I can remember, new to me. She is delightfully pure in tone, even and steady in production, highly accomplished and at her ease in florid passages, ranging widely and ‘taking’ cleanly, expressive as well (though perhaps less strikingly so). It would no doubt be rash to call her a new Nezhdanova, but I daresay that listening in suitable company I might have risked it, at least as an observation with question-mark. |
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« Reply #9 on: 22:02:09, 11-09-2007 » |
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Many thanks, oh Grande!
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« Reply #11 on: 22:16:10, 11-09-2007 » |
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Blast, Martle - my cover blown! But in the process you have revealed yourself to be Scooter Libby  Sorry, IGI, I don't know that Polyansky recording - I've only seen the Cui live. The only disk I have of the complete opera of RUSLAN & LUDMILA is a reissue in mp3-format of Samosud's veteran Bolshoi Theatre recording, I'm afraid. It's a gutsy performance, and the sound isn't bad for the period. Sadly you don't get any sense of quadrophonic sound when the brass band play from the back of the auditorium, however... needs to be experienced live in the theatre, I think! Although the only production currently in repertoire in Moscow is actually older than Samosud's recording  |
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« Reply #13 on: 22:29:45, 11-09-2007 » |
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ranging widely and ‘taking’ cleanly
Well, who could ask for anything more? But oh my goodness, I hate to sound like a fuddy-duddy again - is that not exactly the kind of writing the Gramophone used to do so well? Yes, a little florid (the kind of thing so many reviewers now seem to learn to imitate on the surface without having any idea what needs to lie beneath it), but absolutely precise in its terms, providing useful and immediately comprehensible technical information. Not afraid to poke a little fun at itself but sure of its own substance. Where has this kind of writing gone? (I certainly can't do it... in fact I should really be writing a couple of reviews now!) What of any substance has taken its place?  |
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