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2020-05-10 09:46:41
A Life On-Line: Prince Igor, Ermione, Don Carlos and a choir of cats, sheep and cows
Borodin: Prince Igor - Ildar Abdrazakov - Metropolitan Opera (Photo Metropolitan Opera) As with performers, with lock-down composers are having to find new ways of communicating with their audiences. The composer Edward Nesbitt has collaborated with ethnomusicologist Thomas Hodgson (both colleagues in the Music Department at King's College, London) and with counter-tenor Michael Wood (in Edinburgh) to create Acalantida, a new piece about a nightingale setting a riddle by the 7th Century English bishop, St Adhelm. The result, combines Wood's counter-tenor with Hodgson's keyboards and with a nightingale singing outside Hodgson's window. It is available on SoundCloud. Violinist Linus Roth has been tempting us on Instagram with excerpts from his new recording of the original version of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which is going to be issued on Challenge Records. Over on Facebook, pianist Charles Owen was performing one of Schumann's Arabesques, and soprano Natalya […]
2020-01-30 09:00:00
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro - Currentzis - Kleiber - Gardiner
[…] how to behave. Here he seems to come from the lower ranks of society. Harald Pröglhof, who makes a good portrait of Antonio, might even have been a better choice. Hilde Rössl-Majdan is a splendid Marcellina and Murray Dickie is a more heroic Don Basilio than most. This Scottish-born tenor is probably best known for singing the tenor part in Das Lied von der Erde under Paul Kletzki with Fischer-Dieskau taking the baritone part. Hugues Cuénod on Vittorio Gui’s almost contemporaneous recording is even more oily but Dickie’s is a refreshing reading. Hugo Meyer-Welfing, who used to sing Don Ottavio and Hoffmann, is luxury casting for Don Curzio and Anny Felbermayer is a pretty Barbarina.Alfred Poell’s Almaviva apart – and others may well like him better than I do – this old warhorse still holds its own against the keen competition. Readers who want to botanise among other vintage recordings […]
2018-04-03 23:31:00
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee gave a recital Saturday night, only his second local appearance, following his San Francisco Opera debut the other year in Don Pasquale. He was delightful in that bonbon -- it's pretty silly even as opera plots go -- and was seriously good the other night. Here are the reviews and some further thoughts that wouldn't fit into my review. Joshua Kosman, Chron Lisa Hirsch, SFCV We're pretty much on the same page here; Brownlee is new to Dichterliebe and it'll be very different hearing him a couple of years down the road. The thoughts I couldn't get into the review: Brownlee is such a consistent vocalist that I would be willing to bet that he sings for a good long time. His comfort in florid music, standards, and contemporary music somewhat puts me in mind of the late Hugues Cuénod, who died at the remarkable […]
2017-06-26 13:55:06
“My success is going to your head!”
Born on this day in 1922 actress Eleanor Parker. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCAecWeXd28 Born on this day in 1900 tenor Richard Crooks. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_zONgy2_c Born on this day in 1902 tenor Hugues Cuénod. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wepiXvtAC2c Born on this day in 1911 tenor Hans Beirer. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGWuRQo1MfE Born on this day in 1914 tenor Wolfgang Windgassen. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK5mB72IRwI Born on this day in 1916 baritone Giuseppe Taddei. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PE6Ztlm1BM Born on this day in 1933 conductor Claudio Abbado. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=80g9E1JZoZg
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