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2013-02-27 17:47:00
Britten Owen Wingrave Imbrailo broadcast
[…] objector during the Second World War, as was Pears – whose brother was a prisoner of the Japanese. Thus, there are many reasons why Britten would think of Owen Wingrave in terms of an anti-military statement. However, perhaps that’s what explains the weakness of the drama. The opera assumes war is a game: toy soldiers and horses abound in this production. But as the Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, genuinely descended from an ancient military family, said, “No one hates war more than a soldier”. They know reality, politicians don’t. Von Moltke’s descendant, incidentally, rejected the Army, but gave his life opposing Hitler. Perhaps that’s the significance of the Pickelhaube portrait that featured in the staging in 2007? The Wingrave family certainly don’t know reality, but live in a miasma of blind duty, propelled by a warped fascination […]
2012-08-08 01:56:00
Oldest Recording in the world?
Is this the oldest recording in the world? The original was made by inventor Emile Berliner,m who patented the first gramophone technology in 1887. The recording itself was lost, but a photograph was printed in a German magazine of 1890. With modern technogy, which I can't comprehend, it's now possible to hear the recording again., Please read this article about the discovery. There's a soundclip, too. It's Emile Berliner himself reading a verse from Schiller. Lots more on this site about very early recordings, like Theo Wangemann's first ever Schubert recording 1890! Wangemann worked for Thomas Ediuson who really got recording off the ground. He'sthe one who from m189 was in Europe rrecording Bismark, bvon Moltke and Jiohannes Brahms himself, the first recording savvy composer. Follow the link above for sound clip. Elsewhere on this site, the first ever Carmen recording (1905) and clips of composers […]
2012-02-04 04:11:00
First Schubert recording - 1890 out now!
[…] first ever Rheingold and Walkuere and teacher of Mengelberg, von Schuch, Andreae, Oestvig and many others. A unique document if only it could be heard.!" because the sound quality is hardly bearable. You can hear voices in the background, and the singer seems to wait til it's OK to start. The audio engineer was Theo Wangemann who worked for Edison in Europe. He also recorded Otto von Bismark singing the Marsellaise, and Helmut von Moltke reciting Goethe and Shakespeare at Kreisau. A lost world! The cylinders were discovered in 1957 but some were only made available this week. Here is the link, scroll down and enjoy. SACD it ain't but who cares? Just imagine those people huddled over state of the art technology, not knowing we'd heard them 122 years later. Wangemann also recorded Johannes Brahms, playing Brahms, Hungarian Dance no 1, recorded 2nd December […]
2012-02-02 21:52:00
A box of wax cylinders found at Thomas Edison's lab turns out to be legendary recordings made in 1889 and 1890. They include a recording of Bismarck, the German chancellor, and of Helmuth von Moltke, a military strategist born in 1800. That's 13 years before Wagner and Verdi were born, during the lifetimes of Beethoven, Haydn, and Berlioz. Read all about it and hear samples at the NY Times. The trove of cylinders "recently uncovered" (not exactly!) is, of course, the Julius Block cylinders, published on Marston a few years ago.
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