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2019-01-29 03:37:54
OUT NOW | Violinist Ingolf Turban’s New CD: ‘Théodore Dubois’ [LISTEN]
Classic Produktion Osnabrück has announced the release of German violinist Ingolf Turban’s new album Théodore Dubois. Recorded with pianist Lukas Maria Kuen, conductor Raoul Grüneis and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the disc features French Romantic composer Théodore Dubois’ (1837-1924) Violin Concerto in D Minor, Violin Sonata – and Ballade for violin and piano. “I’ve always been fascinated by […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2018-12-16 17:03:00
Why Christmas gives me the creeps
On 25th December 1941, Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese. The Japanese had been at war with China on and off for fifty years. For ten years they'd been sweeping through China : battle hardened troops with a formidable military machine behind them. Manchuria fell, then Shanghai, then Nanjing, then Guangzhou (Canton). British military strategists, to their credit, were realistic. They monitored what was going on, careful to preserve neutrality in the war between China and Japan, though they knew, as Churchill himself was to say, that there was "not the slightest chance " of Hong Kong holding out. Read Franco David Macri : Clash of Empires in South China (2012, 512pp) The photo above was taken a few days before the first Japanese attack on 8th December (co-inciding with Pearl Harbour). It took four days for the Japanese to take the territory, seen in the hinterland. Notice how small […]
2017-04-29 17:18:00
Skipping the Groove: The Long-Lost Art of the Complete Opera Album (Part Two) — Living the Life Operatic
Sophia Loren (Aida) & Afro Poli (Amonasro) in the film version of Verdi’s Aida (1953) Lights! Camera! Opera! From Puccini to his illustrious predecessor, Verdi, came my first full-fledged exposure to the Bear of Busseto’s grandest of grand operas, Aida. Originally conceived to inaugurate the 1869 opening of the Suez Canal in Egypt, Aida made its debut a few years later (in 1871) at the Cairo Opera House. Besides being one of Master Verdi’s most sonorous stage spectacles, there are moments of unanticipated intimacy and orchestral lightness — for example, the famous double scene of Act IV where Aida and her lover, Radames, are locked in each other’s arms while sealed alive in the tomb. As many of this blog’s readers know, my first experience with a live radio transmission of a Metropolitan Opera production was the four-act Aida. The cast, as far as I can remember, was headlined […]
2017-04-08 13:07:58
‘Happy’ birthday
On this day in 1876 Ponchielli’s La Gioconda premiered in Milan. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8vnu5f01WU Born on this day in 1889 conductor Adrian Boult. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il658EuKEiQ Born on this day in 1902 conductor Josef Krips. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCKDxc0ws80 Born on this day in 1906 tenor Raoul Jobin. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv08RvPEknw Born on this day in 1910 tenor Paul Kuen. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdl80rcYRk Born on this day in 1921 tenor Franco Corelli. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJlcVohCGSE Born on this day in 1929 bass-baritone Walter Berry. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmsrhCxorVo Born on this day in 1930 baritone John Reardon. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_YIgTW8rFU Born on this day in 1947 tenor Walter Raffeiner. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXnpzyjPYM Happy 70th birthday mezzo-soprano Bruna Baglioni. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXbrLGNt1uo Born on this day in 1949 soprano Sabine Hass. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrNk44IoTJ8 Happy 64th birthday mezzo-soprano Diana Montague. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiPypz_la68 Happy 60th birthday baritone Anthony Michaels-Moore. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5FqNYyNgbs
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