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2023-01-25 11:00:54
On this day in 1961 baritone Eberhard Wächter made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Wolfram in Tannhäuser.
2020-11-29 12:52:49
A Life On-Line: Orpheus in suburbia, Paris in the 1920s, Britten and Clyne in Perth,
[…] the live-stream so I could hear this performance, but again I really wanted to be there. [Scottish Chamber Orchestra] Until I read the review in The Guardian of Philippe Sands' book The Ratline [The Guardian], I had never heard of the Ratline, the conduit through which escaping Nazi's passed to get to Argentina after the Second World War. The irony of the title is that the subject of Sands' book, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter never does get to Argentina and dies of poison. The biography of a Nazi war criminal, no matter how complex, does not sound the obvious source for a concert, but the Academy of St Martin in the Fields' Love, Lies and Justice programme as part of its re:connect season recorded at St Martin in the Fields did just that. And the result was profoundly thought-provoking. Philippe Sands read passages from his book, sufficiently long […]
2020-01-30 09:00:00
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro - Currentzis - Kleiber - Gardiner
[…] Ingvar Wixell a superb Almaviva and sterling contributions from Jessye Norman and Mirella Freni (Philips). Both these sets win hands down when it comes to sound quality. Vittorio Gui’s EMI version has surprisingly good sound and also sports one of the outstanding Figaros, Sesto Bruscantini, together with Sena Jurinac and Graziella Sciutti. There are also Fricsay (DG, Fischer-Dieskau again Almaviva and Irmgard Seefried a charming Susanna) and Giulini (EMI) with Giuseppe Taddei’s idiomatic Figaro, Eberhard Wächter’s hot-tempered Almaviva and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s noble and dignified Countess. There are riches aplenty and for those who love this opera as much as I do it can never be enough with only one recording. From the last decades there are good recordings under Karajan (quirky conducting but great soloists), Solti, Östman, Barenboim, Mackerras, Marriner … Need I say more? My final verdict is: Don’t you have a Figaro at all? Buy this Kleiber set. […]
2019-12-01 14:39:58
Johann Sebastian Bach: Zion hört die Wächter singen Context J. S. Bach’s church cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (‘Awake, calls the voice to us’) was composed for the 27th Sunday after Trinity. It’s first performance happened on the 25th November 1731. This work completed Bach’s second annual cycle […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
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