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Danish opera soprano (1946-2008)
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2024-03-08 00:00:00
Paavo Jarvi conducts
Carl Nielsen - Symphonies:1.01 - 1.04 Symphony No.1 in G minor, op.7 [33:58]1.05 - 1.08 Symphony No.2, op.16 'The Four Temperaments' [33:39]2.01 - 2.04 Symphony No.3, op.27 'Sinfonia espansiva' * [37'19]2.05 - 2.08 Symphony No.4, op.29 'The Inextinguishable' [35'00]3.01 - 3.04 Symphony No.5, op.50 [37'07]3.05 - 3.08 Symphony No.6 'Sinfonia Semplice' [33'18]Camilla Tilling- soprano, Michael Nagy- baritone *, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo JärviRCA 8875 17880-2 [recorded December 2009 to April 2013; issued 2015][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Grosser Saal, Alte Oper, Frankfurt and Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal, Kurhaus, Wiesbaden (Symphony No.1), GermanyRecording engineers: Christoph Classen, Rüdiger Orth, Udo Wüstendörfer, Wolfgang PackeiserJohannes Brahms - Symphonies:Disc 101 - 04 Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68 [46'04]05 Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St. Anthony Chorale' [17'28]Sony/RCA 1907 586955-2 [issued 2018][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, no booklet]Disc 201 - 04 Symphony No.2 in D major, op.73 [43'46]05 […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-05 14:38:31
On the verge of its centennial, a full-size Boston Civic Symphony thundered through Carl Nielsen's Inextinguishable, dreamed Claude Debussy's Faune, and introduced 16-year-old competition winner violinist Dana Chang in Henri Wieniawski's second concerto on Sunday afternoon. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-01-16 03:44:00
Van Zweden Takes the Fifth
[…] which was super-fast for its own sake and consequently lost all detail. It just wasn't really good, and the Shostakovich showed what van Zweden is capable of. I don't know if the Beethoven just got the short end of the rehearsal time stick, or what. I was also reminded that I missed the last performance of Beethoven's 5th, two years ago during the Omircron COVID surge. I believe that it was on a program with the Nielsen Fifth, a quirky and fabulous symphony, and that Herbert Blomstedt conducted it. I turned in my ticket, which I deeply, deeply regret.Elsewhere:Joshua Kosman, SF Chronicle, is more enthused about the Beethoven than I am. I agree completely about principal flute Yubeen Kim, who has a gorgeous sound that he can vary at will.Rebecca Wishnia, SFCVDB at KalimacPreviously:Alex Ross, TNY, on van Zweden's appointment. Note the remarks in both New Yorker articles about Salonen, for whose […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] Disco for best opera recording of the year) and Robert le diable (1831) by the aforementioned Meyerbeer. The generally superb cast in Robert includes Erin Morley and John Osborn, both of whom are widely loved thanks to their frequent performances at the Met. Since 1900: The other operas that I had a chance to review and that impressed me particularly were all composed in the twentieth century or later. The first-ever recording (1960) of Carl Nielsen’s Saul and David (1902) was re-released, coupled with a fascinating work by Helge Bonnén (whose dates are 1896-1983) for actors and orchestra: poems from Edgar Lee Masters’s famous Spoon River Anthology, spoken while the orchestra plays an interpretive underscore! The reemergence of lost or forgotten works by Kurt Weill continues with the (belated) release of a 1998 recording of Propheten, a cantata (i.e., unstaged) version of the stirring final act that got cut before […]
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