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Post by ando on Nov 12, 2022 1:53:33 GMT
Very nice. I wasn’t familiar with Yepes. This NYTimes article provided some background on his approach and influence in expanding the physical capabilities of the guitar. Thanks! |
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Post by ando on Nov 12, 2022 2:35:04 GMT
some classic R&B on the way to work…  |
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Post by ando on Nov 12, 2022 21:13:18 GMT
 Pulled out a disc from this CPE Bach Hannsler Box Set. Wonderful collection, half of which are solo piano works performed by Anna-Marija Markovina and the other half by various first rate ensembles. It was an inexpensive purchase that’s tough to find for under $100 now. I believe Spotify is the only platform that features the set in its entirety, though YouTube also has a nifty playlist of all the individual tracks. Here's David Hurwitz talking about the revised edition of this set: |
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Post by ando on Nov 13, 2022 1:07:51 GMT
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Post by ando on Nov 15, 2022 5:55:25 GMT
 THE COLOUR OF SPRING (1986, EMI) Fall colours, wouldn't you say? A kind of splendid downer of an 80s new wave album. |
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Post by ando on Nov 15, 2022 11:04:20 GMT
All Johannes Brahms program from `97 by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center including two songs performed with the late, great mezzo soprano, Jessye Norman.
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Post by Hrothgar on Nov 16, 2022 21:47:54 GMT
One of my favorites from the Battle-Perlman Bach album - - This doesn't reveal Kathleen at her very best but it only a song, her rendition is still perfection. I loved her in the Barber of Seville per the Met ca2000 I think. It was too bad that she had hiss fits galore and was banned from the Met. All those would-be performances never to materialize. |
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Post by Hrothgar on Nov 16, 2022 22:41:11 GMT
The Beethoven is with an abbreviated orchestra. Period instruments? East Carolina University, interesting. Period pieces interesting but I'm a fan of the larger, modern orchestras. But I am not totally averse. I have the complete Immerseel recordings of the Beethoven Symphonies. I love Villa-Lobos. He is a master orchestrator and I am as well a great fan of his solo piano works, complete collections with Sonia Rubinsky.
Are you sharing with us the fruits of subscription availability? Anyway thanks for all the stuff you put on here. Do you have any complete operas from the Met? (If I may be so bold to ask). I remember learning that the Met was quite stingy, at least at one time, in making their archived operas available to the public.. I am sure that they must have some sort of subscription service, I should have a look. I once had a crude recording on cassette of Rigoletto done at the Met ca1993 with Pavarotti that was smashing. But I lost it. It was a case of losing something that really hurts, though a measly cassette disc. I won't give a right arm, but I might let go of a finger if I could obtain a video of that.
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Post by Hrothgar on Nov 17, 2022 4:02:57 GMT
Here is small snippet from a long symphony...
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Post by ando on Nov 17, 2022 17:36:16 GMT
Are you sharing with us the fruits of subscription availability? Anyway thanks for all the stuff you put on here. Do you have any complete operas from the Met? (If I may be so bold to ask). I remember learning that the Met was quite stingy, at least at one time, in making their archived operas available to the public..
No, my posts have nothing to do with MET subscriptions. Many of their productions are readily available via YouTube. People continually post their favorite MET productions from years past, however they’re in varying levels of picture and sound quality. The MET has its own subscription service with a sizable library, which for a time was free to the public as a friendly service during the height of the pandemic. That was nice. But The MET isn’t the only opera house with productions on YouTube. I’ve seen productions from La Scala to the Los Angeles Opera streaming there. A “full opera” search will bring up a wide range of results. To answer your question about a full MET production with the soprano mentioned earlier, here’s the 1988 MET performance of Ariadne auf Naxos - |
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Post by Hrothgar on Nov 18, 2022 2:28:33 GMT
Thank you for the Met Ariadne Auf Naxos. I don't know his operas with exception of Der Rosencavalier and that only slightly. I started the video not particularly enthused but was excited by the cast. Great casts are normal for the Met but to see Kathleen Battle in the same opera with James King was a surprise. I was (deeply) disappointed that there were no subtitles. I went to the Net for a snyopsis. I was lost in the beginning, so much buzzing about but no words. I skipped to the Part Two section and didn't look back sans subs.
I am familiar with the orchestral works, especially as might be expected, the Tone Poems. When I a kid my local classical music station used Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra as the opening music to a particular show, for years and years.
Di Rigori Armato has always been a big fave. Here is a brilliant (to me, anyway) 15-minute dress rehearsal of Rosenkavalier the middle of which the aria appears. I believe the tenor is Jeffrey Stamm, who I have never heard of. He sounds like a Helden to me but sometimes hard to tell. EDIT: After listening again, not a heldentenor. But good. A helden's voice seems to me to come from somewhere deep within and with a relentless steadfastness and consummate durability. I did not search the Net, he is hard about which to get info.
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Post by ando on Nov 18, 2022 5:17:03 GMT
Came across this collection of Johnny Mercer songs that was pretty well and it together. You don’t hear much mention of him - even among the contemporary crooners - but he was one of the best song writers to come out of that early 20th century popular American scene. Not sure if his background included Tin Pan Alley but he certainly took advantage of that style of writing to his benefit.  |
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Post by ando on Nov 18, 2022 5:40:27 GMT
Di Rigori Armato has always been a big fave. Here is a brilliant (to me, anyway) 15-minute dress rehearsal of Rosenkavalier the middle of which the aria appears. I believe the tenor is Jeffrey Stamm, who I have never heard of. He sounds like a Helden to me but sometimes hard to tell. EDIT: After listening again, not a heldentenor. But good. A helden's voice seems to me to come from somewhere deep within and with a relentless steadfastness and consummate durability. Speaking of Der Rosenkavalier Operavison (a YouTube channel which which streams recent opera productions for a prescribed length of time) just up La Monnaie (Brussels) Opera company’s version last night. It’s set in modern dress which always initially puts me off but there are subtitles!  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Nov 19, 2022 4:40:47 GMT
Charles Brown's penultimate album, So Goes Love (1998)
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Post by ando on Nov 19, 2022 15:00:58 GMT
more Brahms. His sole clarinet quintet, recorded live earlier this year -
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