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Austrian contralto (1921-2010)
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- opera singer, music teacher, university teacher
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The BNF Collection part 2
Ludwig van Beethoven 10 Piano Sonatas Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Toccata Arabesque Etudes Symphoniques Yves Nat piano Recorded (mostly) 1955 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 Hildegard Rossel-Majdan contralto Vienna Festival Orchestra Charles Adler Recorded 1952 Robert Schumann Symphony No. 3 "Renish" Orchestre de la Societé des Concerts du Conservatoire Carl Schuricht Recorded 1952 J. S. Bach Goldberg Variations Jorg Demus piano Recorded 1953 P. I. Tchaikovsky Symphony No, 1 "Winter Daydreams" Prague Symphony Orchestra Vaclav Smetacek Recorded/Published 1962 Florent Schmitt String Quartet op, 112 Quatuor Champeil Recorded/Published 1958 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Mozart, Strauss Mendelssohn, Bach, etc Herbert von Karajan Walter Susskind Gerald Moore Recorded aprox.1948-1960 […]
2017-04-10 15:00:37
Today or tomorrow or the day after that
“Time is a strange thing,” the lady observes, to a young man who cannot begin to understand what she is talking about. “While one is living one’s life away, it is absolutely nothing. Then, suddenly, one is aware of nothing else. It is all around us—and in us too.” When the Metropolitan Opera presents its new Robert Carsen production of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Der Rosenkavalier on Thursday, and eight more times over the following month, conditions will be right for the audience to enter into a meditation on time’s passage. Both singers in the scene quoted above will be at a crossroads. Elina Garanca, moving into new repertoire, has announced these will be her final performances of Octavian, the 17-year-old rose-bearer of the title. It is not a portrayal the Latvian star has brought to the Met before now. Octavian’s mature lover, the Marschallin, will be Renée Fleming, 58 […]
2016-03-10 02:00:00
It was during the historical months which saw the Berlin wall tumble down that Kurt Masur recorded his exquisite Symphonies cycle, roughly at the same time, Harnoncourt, a Berliner, gifted us with one of the most celebrated cycles ever. The two venerable Maestros, whose musical ideas - albeit so different in many ways - have always been marked by a constant research for authenticity, have now left us bereft of their rigorous approach to the Masters, of their humble sensitivity. Not only we remember them with deep gratitude, but we are also pleased to add a few others gems by other great interpreters of their time. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 Op. 21 in C Major Symphony No. 3 Op. 55 in E-Flat Major 'Eroica' The Chamber Orchestra of Europe Nikolaus Harnoncourt Teldec 9031-75708-2 (1990) Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Op. 36 in […]
2016-01-23 03:30:00
Opera Favourites #3 - Il Cigno di Busseto
Undisputed master of the melodramma and creator of a thousand magical operatic moments, Verdi is a composer I revere with utmost deference, and certainly deem as Padre dell'Opera Italiana, yet I've gradually grown apart from most of his production in the past two decades, and the works I now really love are but a few. Otello is a downright masterpiece, possibly the greatest and most profound operatic effort of the Italian repertoire of all time, and although dotted with unmistakable Wagnerian echoes, it is pure Verdi. Falstaff is another gem, and features some of the Maestro's most touching and exquisite moments, same for Don Carlo (the French version in 5 Acts and with an "S" is here offered only for "academic purposes", as it is - frankly - a rather unfortunate weirdness). For a master of the stage like Verdi, whose finali are usually the most thrilling part of […]
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