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Post by Hrothgar on Apr 26, 2024 14:47:42 GMT
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez
Her crystalline voice haunts both the movie and memory The character she played refused to have her voice recorded, insisting that art exists in the moment of performance and that to mix business with art would cheapen her work.
Fernandez sings the aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana", from Act I of Catalani's opera "La Wally."
The piece is a haunting reverie on the theme of traveling alone and far from home. Catalani died in 1893 of consumption at the age of 39, only a year after the triumphant premiere of "La Wally" at La Scala.Wilhelmenina Wiggins Fernandez - La Wally (extrait de "Diva" 1981) Interesting to note that the aria was not originally composed for the opera. It was a separate song that Catalan added to the opera later. |
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Post by ando on Sept 6, 2024 13:37:13 GMT
I was looking for my nearly daily dose of JS Bach when I stumbled on this lovely performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 1. Evidently, Bach was a part of the pianist’s program (which, unfortunately, is not posted). Plenty to admire and enjoy in the Schumann, though.
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Post by ando on Sept 7, 2024 13:42:39 GMT
Even Bach by the school book is lovely. These poor kids had to get up for an 8 am recital. Glad they did.  Ha Yuna, violin Hwang Geon-young, piano |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Sept 9, 2024 0:11:45 GMT
I love that your Nick Fontana item has 3 subscribers and 9 views. That is insane. He is fabulous. Great accidental find.
I was looking for that WWII lost composers documentary and ended up on this item. So many great little lost tidbits of talent floating around out on the internets.
J.S. Bach - Fugue in A Minor (BWV 947) Organ: Michael Karpowicz
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Sept 9, 2024 0:22:18 GMT
This is the trailer for the documentary I would like to watch.
Utter madness that this is done by a Canadian outfit and it is on Kanopy but I am not licensed to view it.
It doesn't help that there is a Radiohead song with a similar title.
ARC‘s repertoire is largely dedicated to music suppressed and marginalized under the 20th century's repressive regimes. ARC believes that there is a moral obligation to recover works that have been forgotten because of political or racial discrimination, and that their omission sustains the aims of perpetrators, and leaves us with a distorted appreciation of cultural history. A growing number of extraordinary works are joining the repertoire as a result of ARC’s work.
EXIT: MUSIC Documentary | ARC Ensemble
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Post by ando on Sept 16, 2024 17:18:16 GMT
This is the trailer for the documentary I would like to watch. Utter madness that this is done by a Canadian outfit and it is on Kanopy but I am not licensed to view it. It doesn't help that there is a Radiohead song with a similar title. ARC‘s repertoire is largely dedicated to music suppressed and marginalized under the 20th century's repressive regimes. ARC believes that there is a moral obligation to recover works that have been forgotten because of political or racial discrimination, and that their omission sustains the aims of perpetrators, and leaves us with a distorted appreciation of cultural history. A growing number of extraordinary works are joining the repertoire as a result of ARC’s work.EXIT: MUSIC Documentary | ARC Ensemble I can empathize; I've got a Kanopy account with a fairly large university affiliation and I can't view this either. And boy, its presence seems nonexistent, otherwise. I'll keep searching and let you know if I find it streaming elsewhere. |
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Post by ando on Sept 17, 2024 17:32:10 GMT
Mozart’s quintets have long been my favorite of his wonderful output. This is a live performance of a popular clarinet quintet played so beautifully that I thought others might enjoy it as well.
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
Schumann Quartett
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Post by ando on Sept 24, 2024 14:29:08 GMT
More Mozart
Serenade in D Major, KV 250
The opening movement is a stunner.
Gürzenich Kammerorchester Köln
Torsten Janicke, violin, conductor
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Post by ando on Sept 25, 2024 13:07:29 GMT
Critics have hopped on Haydn for being relentlessly optimistic but his string quartet cycle remains consistently intriguing and, with all due respect to Beethoven and Shostakovich, unmatched. Debatable point. Here’s No. 2 in D Minor from Opus 74 - Formosa Quartet
I’ve got to reactivate YTPremium. Interrupting works like this with ads (not even waiting for movement breaks) is criminal. |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 25, 2024 14:47:38 GMT
Critics have hopped on Haydn for being relentlessly optimistic but his string quartet cycle remains consistently intriguing and, with all due respect to Beethoven and Shostakovich, unmatched. Debatable point. Here’s No. 2 in D Minor from Opus 74 - |
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Post by ando on Sept 26, 2024 13:06:34 GMT
And speaking of Shostakovich, it was his birthday today. Just watched a great version of Ambrose Thomas’ operatic treatment of Hamlet last night - Shostakovich’s score to Kozontsev’s Russian language film of the play is another fine treatment as well.
The Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, Mexico City
Jan Latham-Koenig, conductor
Roberto Soto, narrator
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Post by NoShear on Sept 27, 2024 16:24:28 GMT
I love that your Nick Fontana item has 3 subscribers and 9 views. That is insane. He is fabulous. Great accidental find. I was looking for that WWII lost composers documentary and ended up on this item. So many great little lost tidbits of talent floating around out on the internets. J.S. Bach - Fugue in A Minor (BWV 947) Organ: Michael Karpowicz galacticgirrrl, I feel like suiting up for a game of ROLLERBALL... Of futuristic cinema and classical music: |
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Post by ando on Oct 6, 2024 12:00:41 GMT
Haydn String quartet in G Minor, Op. 20 No. 3
Pacific Quartet Vienna
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Post by ando on Oct 14, 2024 20:07:16 GMT
Woke up to winds that nearly ripped my blinds off and Beethoven. And despite my efforts to find great performances from my go-to guys (Mozart, J.S. Bach) Ludwig insisted on being heard. Here’s a nice discovery taped during the height of the Covid period; Trio E flat Major Clarinet, Violoncello and Piano, op. 38 “Grand Trio” (after the Septet, op. 20)
SABINE MEYER, clarinet
SOL GABETTA, violin cello
SEONG-JIN CHO, piano
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Post by BunnyWhit on Oct 22, 2024 16:27:04 GMT
Happy Birthday, Franz Liszt! (22 October 1811 -- 31 July 1886)
We assume and sincerely hope you had a sense of humor.
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