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2024-03-19 16:24:20
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2024-03-14 11:00:19
[…] his relationship with her in order to marry the former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. The story of Callas, much like the storylines of the romantic operas in which she starred, goes that she was betrayed by the man she loved before going into a decline that ended in her death eight years later.Callas is not alone in being mythologised as the great female singer who dies unhappy and alone: Judy Garland, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, the list goes on. There appears to be something irresistible about the idea that a woman of huge talent should be crucified by her success, that she has no right to expect to lead a happy and fulfilled life. With Callas, as with Garland, the emphasis is always on the way down, never the glorious prime. Renée Zellweger won an Oscar for her portrayal of Garland at the very end of […]
2023-12-05 20:44:30
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2023-11-10 00:00:00
Farquhar, Farr, Finzi, Imogen Holst, Lilburn, McCabe, Psathas, Rubbra & The King's Alchemist: British and New Zealand Chamber Music
[…] Nocturnes:01 The Woman by the Sea for piano and string quartet (2001) * [18'06]02 - 07 Silver Nocturnes for baritone and string quartet 'String Quartet No.6' (2011) ^ [20'22]08 - 10 Horn Quintet (2010-11) # [23'07]11 Desert III. Landscape for piano trio (1982) ~ [23'46]John McCabe- piano*, Roderick Williams- baritone^, David Pyatt- horn#, Sacconi Quartet (Ben Hancox and Hannah Dawson violins, Robin Ashwell- viola and Cara Berridge- cello)*^#; The Australian Piano Trio (Andrew Lorenz- violin, Janis Laurs- cello and Wendy Lorenz- piano) ~.NMC CD239 [recorded 1985 and remastered from LP ~, November 2009 *, April 2016# and March 2017 ^; CD issued 2017[digital download; flacs, cover, back and booklet scans]Recording venues: All Saints Church, East Finchley, London # ~, Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK *^; University Hall, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, AustraliaRecording engineers: Alexander Van Ingen *, David Lefeber ^#, Graham Milne ~Producers: Alexander […]
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