Malcolm Williamson Vídeos
compositor australiano
- órgano, piano
- ópera, sinfonía
- Australia
- compositor de música clásica, pianista, organista
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Elizabeth Harwood Luciano Pavarotti Donizetti Sutherland Williamson Weibel 1965
From the historic Sutherland Williamson Grand Opera tour of 1965, the English soprano, Elizabeth Harwood, and Italian tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, sing the Act I duet between Adina and Nemorino. The orchestra at this performance from September 1st, 1965, is conducted by William Weibel.
Liebling Rossini Weber Verdi Liszt Williamson Peter Phillips 1865 1927 1946
George Liebling and his brother Salomon (Sally/Saul) Liebling both studied in Liszt's masterclasses in the 1880s. Neither left many recordings, and neither pianist is altogether top-drawer, though they were both noted in their time. I thought it would be nice to hear George in a few of his rather populist roll recordings for Welte Mignon. This roll was made in 1927, and was optimised for Disklavier by Ian Williamson from a pneumatic scan made by Peter Phillips. This potpourri of opera tunes is listed as the 3rd of the set of "Reminiscences" he put onto roll. If anyone wants to name each melody in order, feel free to try. I recognise some of them, but they do flit by quite quickly! As the commentators below noted quickly, he includes a bastardised version of Liszt's own Rigoletto paraphrase at the end.
Joan Sutherland Williamson Melbourne Opera 1965
Sutherland Williamson Tour 1965 *Picture from the curtain call
John Lemmoné Adelina Patti Nellie Melba Amy Sherwin Ignacy Jan Paderewski Pablo Sarasate Allan James Foley Foley Charles Santley Mark Hambourg Williamson Covent Garden Albert Hall Metropolitan Opera 1861 1888 1889 1893 1894 1896 1897 1907 1910 1911 1949
The Ballarat-born Australian flautist JOHN LEMMONE, a protege of Melba's, playing Mozart with another Melba protege, harpist Ada Sassoli, in New York in 1910. The play the FIRST (allegro) MOVEMENT (only) of Mozart's CONCERTO FOR FLUTE AND HARP. From wikipedia: "JOHN LEMMONE (22 June 1861 – 16 August 1949; also seen as John Lemmoné) was an Australian flute player and composer who was largely self-taught and who at the age of 12, paid for his first flute with gold he had panned himself on the goldfields at Ballarat. He had an international career as a soloist, and accompanied well-known singers such as Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba and Amy Sherwin, the pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and the violinist Pablo de Sarasate. Later in his career he became Nellie Melba's manager. He married Isabella Stewart in 1889 and over the next few years he again toured, with singers Janet Patey, Allan James Foley and Charles Santley, and violinist Pablo de Sarasate. Lemmone renewed his acquaintance with Nellie Melba in London in 1894. By this time, Melba was very well known in Europe, having sung at Covent Garden in 1888 and the Metropolitan Opera in 1893, and his contact with her further advanced his career. He accompanied her with flute obbligatos at fashionable social gatherings and at Queen's Hall, London. He also performed with Adelina Patti in Albert Hall, toured with her and in 1896 with Amy Sherwin in South Africa. When he returned to Australia in 1897, he changed career path and began work as a manager for international artists, including pianists Mark Hambourg and Paderewski as well as Melba. He also selected internationally known performers for the 1911 J. C. Williamson opera season. He continued to perform, however. At a reception held for him after his return from Europe, he performed so well that a critique in "The Sydney Morning Herald" reported: "... the varying moods of the dreamy undulating motions of the Nautch girl's dance or the swirling rhythm of the Hungarian dance, the piquant action of the mazurka, the majestic sweep of a Russian hymn, the delightful trill of the nightingale, and the restless fluttering of the butterfly in a garden of roses are delineated by Mr Lemmone with a sweetness of expression and accuracy of tone, even in the most difficult bravura passages, that cannot fail to charm the hearer." ADA SASSOLI was a young harpist when she accompanied several of Melba's tours in the first decade of the twentieth century, and she recorded with Melba on the Victor label in New York in 1907. This is another track to which frequency response deficiencies have been corrected by means of the spectral analysis "waterfall" graph being used as a guide to the control of peaks and dips by means of digital graphic and parametric equalisers. The record has a degree of wear (not surprising, considering its age) and there is some remnant distortion as a result, but I'm generally happy with this transfer. The recorded balance between the harp and the flute was not too good, so that Lemmone is heard far better than Sassoli's harp. Another disc from the Frank Puls collection - some of the music that he loved.
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