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2019-12-24 00:00:00
Complete Shostakovich Symphonies - Sladkovsky - Hi-Rez
[…] recordings made in Kazan are better, excelling in detail. With the momentous opening, followed by thoughtful and reflective playing, an idea of great beauty arrives, with superb playing by the solo flute of Porfirieva, balanced by the piano and the brass chorale. In the slickly played second movement, tempi are brisk and there is an almost perfect balance in the recording. A theme in the brass intones music from Benatzky’s The White Horse Inn, followed again by wonderful flute playing. In the slow movement, the conductor adopts a funereal pace. This is most sensitively controlled, the flute and clarinets share the probing theme, trailed by a plaintive cry from Ramil Safin’s bassoon. In the finale, Sladkovsky adopts a brisk tempo; the strings are triumphant and celebratory, then there is a slow build-up of momentum; harp, timpani, brass, woodwind […]
2019-08-15 05:07:00
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Operetta Arias (CD review)
[…] Legge, were meticulous about every detail of a song and a recording. Here, it shows. It is a testament to their work that this is one of the oldest EMI recordings still selling briskly almost everywhere and in various different formats. Ms. Schwarzkopf excelled at opera, light opera, operetta, and lieder, and she and Legge would practice for hours on a single passage or the phrasing of a single note. Again, it shows. Excerpts from Benatzky-Strauss's Casanova, Suppe's Boccaccio, Lehar's Der Graf von Luxemburg and Giuditta, and others have never come across more perfectly. The complete listing is as follows: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf 1. Heuberger: Der Opernball - "Im Chambre Séparée" 2. Zeller: Der Vogelhändler - "Ich Bin Die Christel Von Der Post" 3. Zeller: Der Vogelhandler - "Schenkt Man Sich Rosen in Tirol" 4. Lehar: Der Zarewitsch - "Einer Wird Kommen" 5. Lehar: […]
2019-01-10 07:56:36
Oper Köln delivers a colourful account of Ralph Benatsky & Robert Stolz’ The White Horse Inn
[…] some beating, But of special interest to me was to the fact that I stayed at the famous White Horse Inn (Hotel Weißes Rössl) which has been in the trusted hands of the Peter family - Oliver and Gudrun Trutmann-Peter - for five generations. I recall a certain amount of excitement ran through my veins.The hotel’s famed throughout the German-speaking world due to its association with the operetta of the same name composed by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz during the shaky and fragile régime of the Weimar Republic, the first German government to be elected after the fall of the monarchy in the 1930s as the Nazis were edging towards power. It was Benatsky who actually penned the well-loved title number: ‘Im weißen Rößl am Wolfgangsee.’ And what a number!Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz's White Horse Inn (Hotel Weißes Rössl) was given a new production at Oper Köln, directed […]
2017-06-05 17:13:12
“I can’t remember when I didn’t want to be an actress”
Born on this day in 1912 singer and Alice Faye. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ELVrIVH_k Born on this day in 1884 composer Ralph Benatzky. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQpp6KBlw0 Born on this day in 1898 poet and composer Federico García Lorca. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6duj-NZW5U Happy 52nd birthday soprano Sandrine Piau. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-aY5kpaIas
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