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British singer, opera singer and music educator
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- United Kingdom
- opera singer, music teacher, university teacher
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2024-04-01 12:00:00
The Thorn Birds was a popular show 40 years ago, and this theme from it appeared in the charts. It h
2022-04-18 05:35:00
Eloquence’s Hans Knappertsbusch Opera Edition brings together all of the conductor’s complete opera and vocal recital releases for Decca, Philips, and Westminster in new masterings by Chris Bernauer and Mark Obert-Thorn. Since much of this material has previously appeared on CD and was duly covered by Classicstoday.com writers, a general overview of the box’s contents […]
2021-06-10 04:36:00
Recent New Releases, No. 9 (CD Mini-Reviews)
By Karl W. NehringAlbores: Dino Saluzzi, bandoneon. ECM 2638 774 7754.Dino Saluzzi (b. 1935) is a master of the bandoneon, an accordion-like instrument most often associated with the tango. However, the music on Albores, consisting of nine compositions by Saluzzi, is not tango music, as we can infer from a glance at the back cover. The title of the first track, Adiós Maestro Kancheli, is a reference to Georgian composer Giya Kancheli (1935-2019), whose music was sprawling, eruptive, disruptive, and highly charged. Saluzzi’s dedication reads: “Dear Maestro and friend, your wonderful music will always remain with me. It was a great honor to get to know you.” This and the other eight compositions on Albores are in a serious, probing, deeply reflective vein, drawing the listener in as if listening to an intense movement from a late Beethoven string quartet or Schubert piano sonata. Saluzzi is not dashing off tunes […]
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