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2023-07-09 07:47:54
The respected mezzo-soprano and festival director has criticised... The post Brigitte Fassbaender attacks Jonas Kaufmann career move appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-05-12 06:06:00
Stokowski Spectacular! (CD mini-reviews)
[…] of a Faun; La Mer; Messiaen: L’Ascension/LSO. Decca 475 145-2.As you can see, this smaller box is something of a subset of the larger Decca box discussed above; however, some of the selections are not quite the same. And again, the highlights include Stokowski’s interpretations of French music, especially Debussy and Ravel. John Puccio reviewed this release some time back, his take can be found here: https://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2012/05/original-masters-leopold-stokowski-cd.htmlMahler: Symphony No. 2; Brahms: Symphony No. 4. Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo-soprano; Margaret Price, soprano; London Symphony Chorus; Leopold Stokowski, London Symphony Orchestra. RCA Victor Gold Seal 09026-62606-2.Although he frequently conducted Mahler in concert, Maestro Stokowski made few Mahler recordings, but this one is a definite keeper. It was made in 1974, when Stokowski was in his 90s. In terms of performance, Stokowski's Mahler is a bit on the slow side, but very expressive – this is a powerful, moving performance. With its excellent sound […]
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Faces of classical music
2021-08-17 06:15:00
Juan Diego Flórez sings arias by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet and Giacomo Puccini, with Vincenzo Scalera (HD 1080p)
[…] 2011, HD 1080p)Alban Berg: Lulu – Marlis Petersen, Kirill Petrenko, Dmitri Tcherniakov – Bavarian State Opera 2015 (Download the opera) Georges Bizet: Carmen – Elena Maximova, Giancarlo Monsalve, Michael Bachtadze, Johanna Parisi – Myron Michailidis, Enrico Castiglione (Taormina Festival 2015, HD 1080p)Giacomo Puccini: Turandot – Mlada Khudoley, Riccardo Massi, Guanqun Yu, Michael Ryssov – Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani – Marco Arturo Marelli (Bregenz Festival 2015 – Download the opera)Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel – Brigitte Fassbaender, Edita Gruberova, Helga Dernesch, Hermann Prey, Sena Jurinac – Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti (HD 1080p)Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – A film by Ondřej Havelka – Bejun Mehta, Eva Liebau, Regula Mühlemann – Václav LuksGiuseppe Verdi: La Traviata – Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson – Carlo Rizzi, Willy Decker (Salzburg Festival 2005)Antonio Vivaldi: Ercole su'l Termodonte – Zachary Stains, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Alan Curtis, John Pascoe (Spoleto Festival 2006)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Iolanta – […]
2021-04-10 11:00:05
(Erato)DiDonato, Nézet-SéguinThe star mezzo, with illustrious accompaniment, makes Schubert’s great song cycle her own The wanderer in Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano, travels a landscape of bleak hopes and frozen tears. Written for tenor but sung by voices of every range, it has long attracted mezzo-sopranos, from Brigitte Fassbaender to Alice Coote. The latest is the American star Joyce DiDonato, who unveiled her reading at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2019 (when this recording was made). Her illustrious, reflective partner is the Canadian conductor-pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin Some of Wilhelm Müller’s poems refer to “he” or “she”, but this suffering soul could be any one of us. Drawing on her formidable range of vocal colour, DiDonato captures the drama within each song, and across the cycle: the dislocated mood of Erstarrung (Numbness), the simplicity, then hopelessness, of Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree), the gothic terror of […]
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