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2018-03-01 06:24:00
O Magnum Mysterium (CD review)
[…] first of three settings for the title number "O Magnum Mysterium." Robert Shaw These and most of the rest of the works on the album are sung by Robert Shaw's Festival Singers, the group he organized after his stint as Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony ended and he could go back to what he appeared to love best, choral music. The Festival Singers are, of course, the reincarnation of his old Robert Shaw Chorale of the Fifties and Sixties. They do several twentieth-century pieces, Morten Lauridsen's setting of "O Magnum Mysterium," as well as Francis Poulenc's version, and Henryk Gorecki's "Totus Tuus." In between are excerpts from Rachmaninoff's "Vespers" and Schubert's "Der Entfernten," which, for male chorus, is especially exquisite. A smaller group, the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, do three American hymns: "Wondrous Love," "Amazing Grace," and "Sometimes I Feel Like a Moanin' Dove." As always […]
2017-07-02 01:00:00
Giuseppe Verdi UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (1859) NBC Symphony Orchestra Robert Shaw Chorale Arturo Toscanini (conductor) Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 1954 Pristine Classical PACO032 remastering Published 2009 FLAC, cuesheets, scans Rob Maynard, MusicWeb International Review: It is a never-ending source of wonder to find modern audio technology giving new life to recordings originally made many decades ago. The best technicians – usually those with a strong musical background - can remove not only clicks, crackles and pops but, indeed, the […]
2017-04-09 17:52:29
Met Opera Round Up: Singing the Broadcast Blues (Part Two): ‘Nabucco,’ ‘La Bohème,’ and ‘Roméo et Juliette’
[…] went on to complete the music, and Nabucco, as the opera came to be called, became a tremendous hit. Verdi’s future lover and spouse, Strepponi, was cast as Abigaille, Nebuchadnezzar’s adopted child. Their father-daughter relationship, fraught with nervous tension and high-flying vocal pyrotechnics, provides a powerful contrast to the prayer-full Zechariah’s messianic musings. But the crux of the work, and the raison d’être for its continued success, is the emotionally compelling chorus “Va pensiero.” The Robert Shaw Chorale recorded the definitive version of this piece for RCA Red Seal’s Living Stereo label, but any opera company worth its weight in seasonal subscriptions can deliver the goods. What You Hear is What You Get The Metropolitan Opera Chorus, led by its choir master Donald Palumbo, is one of the finest such ensembles on the planet. It got a stirring ovation at the premiere of Nabucco earlier in the season, with the […]
2015-12-27 02:00:00
Opera Favourites #2 - La giovane scuola
[…] hair-raising Angelica/Zia Principessa duet... Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana Agnes Baltsa, Plácido Domingo, Juan Pons, Vera Baniewicz, Susanne Mentzer Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Philharmonia Orchestra Giuseppe Sinopoli DGG 429 568-2 (1989) Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana Jessye Norman, Giuseppe Giacomini, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Rosa Laghezza, Marta Senn Choeurs and Orchestre de Paris Semyon Bychkov Philips 432 105-2 (1990) Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, Robert Merrill, Margaret Roggero, Carol Smith Robert Shaw Chorale RCA Victor Orchestra Renato Cellini RCA GD86510 (1953) Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Pablo Elvira, Jean Kraft, Isola Jones Ambrosian Opera Chorus National Philharmonic Orchestra James Levine RCA RD83091 (1979) Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana Ruggero Leoncavallo - Pagliacci Martina Arroyo, Franco Bonisolli, Bernd Weikl, Juliana Falk, Livia Budai, Vladimir Atlantov, Lucia Popp, Bernd Weikl, Wolfgang Brendel, Alexandru Ionita Tölzer Knabenchor and Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks […]
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