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French orchestral and opera conductor (1924-2017)
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Recent Releases No. 65 (CD Reviews)
[…] such that are heard in January in the gilded Musikverein. As you can see from the above program listing, the summer concert is more musically substantial, and because it is summer, the park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is the outdoor setting for the concert, allowing for a far larger audience to attend. Like the New Year’s concert, the Summer Concert is led bya top-flight conductor – Yannick Nézet-Séguin in 2023, following in the footsteps of Georges Prêtre, Daniel Barenboim, Franz Welser-Möst, Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta, Semyon Bychkov, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding, and Andris Nelsons. Also like the New Year’s Concert, the event is televised worldwide (PBS carries it in the USA) and is made available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and – obviously – CD. To be perfectly honest, I would think most folks would prefer to see a video version of this concert rather than merely to listen to the […]
2022-07-03 19:29:15
It is often said that the era of modern music began with a single work in 1894: Claude Debussy’s Prélude à L’Après-Midi D’Un Faune for orchestra. Based on Mallarmé’s poem, Debussy considered the Prélude to be evocative “of the successive scenes in which the longings and desires of the faun pass in the heat of the afternoon”. Debussy stretched the traditional system of keys and tonalities to their limits. The Prélude is one of the most popular pieces of music of all time and inspired many composers. Have a look now at Georges Pretre as directs a performance of Debussy’s “Prelude to the
2022-04-04 05:47:00
New Year’s Concert 2022 (CD review)
Music of Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Eduard Strauss, and others. Daniel Barenboim, Vienna Philharmonic. Sony 19439962512 (2-disc set).By John J. PuccioYou doubtless know that Vienna’s New Year’s Concerts have been going on since 1941 when the Vienna Philharmonic began its annual custom of offering them, and things haven’t changed much since then. EMI, RCA, DG, Decca, and now Sony are among the many companies that have recorded the VPO’s concerts over the stereo years, and in keeping with the orchestra’s tradition of having no permanent music director, they invite a different conductor to perform the New Year’s duties each year. The New Year’s conductors in recent times have included some of the biggest names in the business, including Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Willi Boskovsky, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, Georges Pretre, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Franz Welser-Most, Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Andris Nelsons, […]
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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)
[…] Timo Riihonen, Ida Falk Winland, Joska Lehtinen, Anna Danik, Nicholas Söderlund, Malin Christensson – Tapiola Sinfonietta, New Generation Opera Ensemble, Ville Matvejeff, Erik Söderblom (HD 1080p)Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten – Avgust Amonov, Mlada Khudoley, Olga Savova, Edem Umerov, Olga Sergeyeva – Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev – Jonathan Kent, Paul Brown (HD 1080p)Giacomo Puccini: Tosca – Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi – L'Orchestre la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre (1965, Digital Remastering 2014, Audio video)Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly – Kristine Opolais, Roberto Alagna, Maria Zifchak, Dwayne Croft – Karel Mark Chichon, Anthony Minghella (MET 2016 – Download the opera)Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata – Marlis Petersen, Giuseppe Varano, James Rutherford – Graz Philharmonic Orchestra and Graz Opera Chorus, Tecwyn Evans, Peter Konwitschny (Oper Graz 2011, HD 1080p)Alban Berg: Lulu – Marlis Petersen, Kirill Petrenko, Dmitri Tcherniakov – Bavarian State Opera 2015 (Download the opera) […]
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