What I listened to today
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With thanks to "Frank" from the UK at his The Music Parlour blogspot for making this available.
George Gershwin: "Of Thee I Sing"
Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia conducted by Wyn Davies
BBC Radio 3 FM. 4 July 1998. Live from the Grand Theatre, Leeds.
George Gershwin: "Of Thee I Sing"
Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia conducted by Wyn Davies
BBC Radio 3 FM. 4 July 1998. Live from the Grand Theatre, Leeds.
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Inspired by his string quartets, I explored some of his piano sonatas, all of which seem to be at YT. ##2,3 made the greatest impression on first hearing, can recommend the music ( also great pianism each case ) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by4cykDSGL0 ( # 3 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07tRQAef32s ( #2 )
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Great Gershwin 2001 Peacock Theatre Covent Garden Festival
Kim Criswell - George Dvorsky - Kevin Cole (& piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by David Charles Abell
BBC Radio 3 FM. 26 December 2001.
Great Gershwin 2001 Peacock Theatre Covent Garden Festival
Kim Criswell - George Dvorsky - Kevin Cole (& piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by David Charles Abell
BBC Radio 3 FM. 26 December 2001.
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Cathy Berberian
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden
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There are fairies at the bottom of our garden
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26483274@N04/46850804084/
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John Francis
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With thanks to musicparlourshowbiz.blogspot.com:
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Carlos Kleiber conducting Borodin's Symphony No. 2 in B Minor - a work with which I'm totally unfamiliar. Just glad to hear anything at all with the name Kleiber attached to it!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DF09Cipq_w
Also watched and listened to this on the weekend!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGqdHXLr04I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DF09Cipq_w
Also watched and listened to this on the weekend!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGqdHXLr04I
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Concentus Musicus, Wien/Harnoncourt/Arnold Shoenberg Choir, "Alexander's Feast". Recorded at Melk Abbey in 2011: not the very best version I've heard (a bit soft around the edges), but enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSSL81TQ0nM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSSL81TQ0nM
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Absolutely magnificent; I didn't know of this work: those jarring dissonances and that translucent sound on period instruments!! Perfection. And just right for the contemplative mood today, Good Friday.
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Eurodisc 201 084-366 digitizwd vinyl LP, never on CD.
Demus-WKE - Schumann Quintet & Quartet from LP
Demus-WKE - Schumann Quintet & Quartet from LP
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Acknowledgment to musicparlourshowbiz.blogspot.com for sharing this broadcast.
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Keiser Reinhard (attr.) - Markus Passion
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eWigKs0EKQattributed to Reinhard Keiser. It may also have been composed by his father Gottfried or by Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns.
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Absolutely gorgeous!!!jserraglio wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:33 amKeiser Reinhard (attr.) - Markus Passion://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eWigKs0EKQattributed to Reinhard Keiser. It may also have been composed by his father Gottfried or by Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns.
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Stunning Classics & Vinyl Marathon
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOiV1 ... shelf_id=1
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=U ... =1&index=1
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOiV1 ... shelf_id=1
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=U ... =1&index=1
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Agreed! Thanks for posting!Belle wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:09 pmAbsolutely gorgeous!!!jserraglio wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:33 amKeiser Reinhard (attr.) - Markus Passion://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eWigKs0EKQattributed to Reinhard Keiser. It may also have been composed by his father Gottfried or by Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns.
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Actually, and very curiously, the instrumentation sounds more like the period of Monteverdi while the choral sound is definitely early 18th century at times. The Keiser (1674-1739) (attrib.) Markus Passion reveals the influence of Monteverdi, Schutz and Biber. The recitative is certainly more 17th century than 18th. The positive organ and lute/chittarone accompaniment was standard practice before Bach, but this BC is filled out rather more in that it has some interesting ostinati and in this sense it's of a later time. The Lutheran chorales sound like Bach but at least one is accompanied by a violin which is more reminiscent of the Italians and Vivaldi. The movement, in a very pronounced way, from tonic to dominant is very Bachian.
It's musicologically a very interesting, somewhat hybrid, piece and absolutely gorgeous to hear. Ergo, I would question the date of 1705.
It's musicologically a very interesting, somewhat hybrid, piece and absolutely gorgeous to hear. Ergo, I would question the date of 1705.
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Conradi: Ariadne
Gemstone rarity of German baroque opera. There is a commercial recording with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra on CPO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUz2WDZeGY
Gemstone rarity of German baroque opera. There is a commercial recording with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra on CPO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUz2WDZeGY
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Only recording of a complete Wagner opera by AT that I know of.
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This is a truly great performance and we're very lucky to have it. Act 2 reached a special height, as Hugo Burghauser of the Vienna Philharmonic and Toscanini himself acknowledged at the time and afterward.
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Today a CD of Bach Toccatas BWV910-916, played by Trevor Pinnock. Stunning playing and I especially love this Toccata:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw_2lX18hh4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw_2lX18hh4
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Barenboim Ring Bayreuth 1989
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Metropolitan Opera House
December 14, 1963
WAGNER GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Brünnhilde...............Birgit Nilsson
Siegfried...............Hans Hopf [Last performance]
Gunther.................Norman Mittelmann
Gutrune..................Mary Curtis-Verna
Hagen...................Ernst Wiemann
Waltraute................Mignon Dunn
Alberich................Gerhard Pechner
First Norn..............Lili Chookasian
Second Norn.............Mignon Dunn
Third Norn..............Mary Curtis-Verna
Woglinde................Mary Ellen Pracht
Wellgunde...............Rosalind Elias
Flosshilde...............Gladys Kriese
Vassal..................William Dembaugh
Vassal..................John Trehy
Conductor...............Joseph Rosenstock
December 14, 1963
WAGNER GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Brünnhilde...............Birgit Nilsson
Siegfried...............Hans Hopf [Last performance]
Gunther.................Norman Mittelmann
Gutrune..................Mary Curtis-Verna
Hagen...................Ernst Wiemann
Waltraute................Mignon Dunn
Alberich................Gerhard Pechner
First Norn..............Lili Chookasian
Second Norn.............Mignon Dunn
Third Norn..............Mary Curtis-Verna
Woglinde................Mary Ellen Pracht
Wellgunde...............Rosalind Elias
Flosshilde...............Gladys Kriese
Vassal..................William Dembaugh
Vassal..................John Trehy
Conductor...............Joseph Rosenstock
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London premiere ( World premiere was a week earlier at Salford ) of Gerald Barry’s brief Viola Concerto ( 2018-2019 ), Lawrence Power, Thomas Ades, Britten Sinfonia, live at the Barbican, my first hearing of the Irish composer’s ( 1952 - ) music, not auspicious for me :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057k2
About his new concerto, Barry says :
"I partly discovered music through exercises. I did not distinguish between these exercises and art. They were the same to me as Mozart or Schubert. Exercises have always been pure things for me, clean, unaffected by dreaded profundity. They are liberating and free, and I always feel good psychologically and physically after playing them. This Viola Concerto is, I suppose, a homage to their ecstasy."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057k2
About his new concerto, Barry says :
"I partly discovered music through exercises. I did not distinguish between these exercises and art. They were the same to me as Mozart or Schubert. Exercises have always been pure things for me, clean, unaffected by dreaded profundity. They are liberating and free, and I always feel good psychologically and physically after playing them. This Viola Concerto is, I suppose, a homage to their ecstasy."
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Mendelssohn Elias Sawallisch/LGO Philips LP
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Georges Aperghis
Graffitis (1981) for a Percussionist
Études pour orchestre 4-6 (2012-14)
Le corps à corps for a Percussionist and his Zarb (1978)
Christian Dierstein, percussion
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Brad Lubman
WDR Köln broadcast
Konzert für Akkordeon und Orchester (2015)
Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Emilio Pomarico
May 2019
Graffitis (1981) for a Percussionist
Études pour orchestre 4-6 (2012-14)
Le corps à corps for a Percussionist and his Zarb (1978)
Christian Dierstein, percussion
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Brad Lubman
WDR Köln broadcast
Konzert für Akkordeon und Orchester (2015)
Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Emilio Pomarico
May 2019
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Vladimir Jurowski/RSOB - Grisey Les espaces acoustiques 2019 Berlin
Wonderful work. A different performance of it slated for sometime tomorrow.
Wonderful work. A different performance of it slated for sometime tomorrow.
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Stefan Asbury-hrso - Grisey Les espaces acoustiques 2010 Darmstadt
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Leinsdorf/Boston - Strauss Ein Heldenleben 1963 RCA LP vinyl.
An excellent recording by a conductor often dismissed in this country. The Japanese, connoisseurs of CM, have long since reissued it.
An excellent recording by a conductor often dismissed in this country. The Japanese, connoisseurs of CM, have long since reissued it.
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Dismissed? Not by me! It wasn't Leinsdorf's fault that the Boston Symphony was in such sorry shape when he took it over, and he nevertheless made many excelent recordings there (Prokofiev Symphonies and Concertos, anyone?). I first heard Mahler I by Leinsdorf and, in spite of the harsh strings and other flaws, Leinsdorf's passion won me over at the tender age of 13/14. Leinsdorf's opera recordings for RCA (including but not limited to a Butterfly w/Anna Moffo, her first recording for RCA IIRC), have remained staples of my collection, as has Leinsdorf's famous first recording of a concerto (Brahms II) w/Sviatoslav Richter in Chicago, during which the second movement was done in one take complete!jserraglio wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2019 3:21 amLeinsdorf/Boston - Strauss Ein Heldenleben 1962 RCA LP vinyl.
An excellent recording by a conductor often dismissed in this country. The Japanese, connoisseurs of CM, have long since reissued it.
Leinsdorf's personality was abrasive, it true, but he made some very excellent music.
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"It Ain't Necessarily So" sung by Sammy Davis, Jr. arr. Andre Previn from Porgy and Bess 1959 film version (a bootleg video by necessity).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gC-vSZr_9 ... pp=1&app=m
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gC-vSZr_9 ... pp=1&app=m
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This was a superb performance of that song from "Porgy and Bess" and I remember the LP recording of it from my youth. Two nights ago I watched "Sweet Charity" for the first time in decades, not realizing it was based on Fellini's "Nights of Cabiria". I was struck by Sammy Davis Junior's performance as "Daddy" in that clever, but very dated, sequence and his easy talent and versatility. What a performer!! Apart from one other memorable dance scene in "Sweet Charity" with MacLaine and two others, I thought the film was a monumental bore!! Sammy Davis saved "Sweet Charity" from oblivion, IMO.
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Doah!! Absolutely, of course!! (Senior's moment!) CC had loads of personality!! What else did he do?
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Besides leading his band? He sang the Sportin' Life in the young cast (Price & Warfield) that goodwill-toured Europe for the Dept of State in 1952ff. It's available in good sound on the Guild label and is worth listening to.
American operatic soprano Leontyne Price, American jazz singer Cab Calloway (1907 - 1994) and William Warfield (1920 - 2002) in the London production of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.
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Cab Calloway as Sportin' Life
Cab Calloway is my favorite Sportin' Life, and Sammy Davis, Jr. was obviously influenced by him. Cuts and all, the 1952 Berlin Porgy with Price/Warfield/Calloway is my favorite recording, of many I know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knahangy9u0
The one thing I especially liked about the It Ain't Necessarily So Hollywood musical style production number in the 1959 movie was how much like an African village festival it was, despite the fact that Otto Preminger insisted that the movie had to be shot on a sound stage.jonthesYT wrote:Cab Calloway singing the role of Sportin' Life live in Berlin in 1952, the famous touring production of Gershwin and Heyward's "Porgy and Bess" with Leontyne Price as Bess, part of which was recorded for a single LP several years later with Price. Excellent sound which I cleaned and remastered, really such be issued; though that production did cut a lot of music it was two and a half hours. Oh to have been in the audience. Calloway not only sings it with an abandon I've not heard by anyone else, he also acts it. It seemed perfectly natural they were partying - what else did they have to do in their circumstances and who could resist partying with Cab around? Remastered by Tormented Artist Ink Studios (me). Calloway is a constant reminder that 'jazz' was a slang word for 'sex'.
African/American culture has enriched my life, starting off with the great Little Richard in the mid-fifties.
Tutti-Frutti. Rock rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_C9q4tuwXI
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Grew up with the recording below: it's the only classical recording Skitch Henderson made IIRC, and it's a surefire winner. William Warfield was a client of mine at the NYAC during the 1980's, but he never autographed my CD because it was issued in 1990......
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Own it on Living Stereo LP. But I really like the discs in this HP series from BMG.
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14 LPs of E. Power Biggs on Columbia and CBS. Sony may never release a Complete Album Collection set of this great artist.
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Day 1 of the Leinsdorf-Met RING
1961 - 1962 Season
Richard Wagner
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
December 16, 1961
DAS RHEINGOLD
Wotan...................George London
Fricka..................Irene Dalis
Alberich................Ralph Herbert
Loge....................Karl Liebl
Erda.....................Jean Madeira
Fasolt..................Jerome Hines
Fafner..................Ernst Wiemann
Freia....................Heidi Krall
Froh....................Robert Nagy
Donner..................Norman Mittelmann
Mime.....................Paul Kuen [Debut]
Woglinde................Martina Arroyo
Wellgunde...............Rosalind Elias
Flosshilde..............Mignon Dunn
Conductor................Erich Leinsdorf
1961 - 1962 Season
Richard Wagner
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
December 16, 1961
DAS RHEINGOLD
Wotan...................George London
Fricka..................Irene Dalis
Alberich................Ralph Herbert
Loge....................Karl Liebl
Erda.....................Jean Madeira
Fasolt..................Jerome Hines
Fafner..................Ernst Wiemann
Freia....................Heidi Krall
Froh....................Robert Nagy
Donner..................Norman Mittelmann
Mime.....................Paul Kuen [Debut]
Woglinde................Martina Arroyo
Wellgunde...............Rosalind Elias
Flosshilde..............Mignon Dunn
Conductor................Erich Leinsdorf
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Day 2 of the Leinsdorf-Met RING
1961 - 1962 Season
Richard Wagner
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
December 23, 1961
DIE WALKÜRE
Brünnhilde..............Birgit Nilsson
Siegmund................Jon Vickers
Sieglinde................Gladys Kuchta
Wotan...................Otto Edelmann
Fricka..................Irene Dalis
Hunding..................Ernst Wiemann
Gerhilde................Carlotta Ordassy
Grimgerde...............Mary MacKenzie
Helmwige.................Heidi Krall
Ortlinde................Martina Arroyo
Rossweisse..............Margaret Roggero
Schwertleite............Gladys Kriese
Siegrune................Helen Vanni
Waltraute...............Mignon Dunn
Conductor...............Erich Leinsdorf
1961 - 1962 Season
Richard Wagner
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
December 23, 1961
DIE WALKÜRE
Brünnhilde..............Birgit Nilsson
Siegmund................Jon Vickers
Sieglinde................Gladys Kuchta
Wotan...................Otto Edelmann
Fricka..................Irene Dalis
Hunding..................Ernst Wiemann
Gerhilde................Carlotta Ordassy
Grimgerde...............Mary MacKenzie
Helmwige.................Heidi Krall
Ortlinde................Martina Arroyo
Rossweisse..............Margaret Roggero
Schwertleite............Gladys Kriese
Siegrune................Helen Vanni
Waltraute...............Mignon Dunn
Conductor...............Erich Leinsdorf
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Day 3 of the Leinsdorf-Met RING
1961 - 1962 Season
Richard Wagner
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
January 13, 1962
SIEGFRIED
Siegfried...............Hans Hopf
Brünnhilde..............Birgit Nilsson
Wanderer.................George London
Erda....................Jean Madeira
Mime....................Paul Kuen
Alberich.................Ralph Herbert
Fafner..................Gottlob Frick
Forest Bird.............Martina Arroyo
Conductor...............Erich Leinsdorf
1961 - 1962 Season
Richard Wagner
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
January 13, 1962
SIEGFRIED
Siegfried...............Hans Hopf
Brünnhilde..............Birgit Nilsson
Wanderer.................George London
Erda....................Jean Madeira
Mime....................Paul Kuen
Alberich.................Ralph Herbert
Fafner..................Gottlob Frick
Forest Bird.............Martina Arroyo
Conductor...............Erich Leinsdorf
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