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Webber: Symphonic Suites (CD review)
Music from Evita, Sunset Boulevard, and The Phantom of the Opera. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andrew Lloyd Webber Orchestra. Decca B0033918-02.By John J. PuccioOne hardly needs reminding that English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the most popular and most prolific musical writers of the past fifty-odd years, from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the mid Sixties through Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, to his latest project, Cinderella; and a lot of other stuff in between. On the present album, he has assembled an eighty-piece orchestra to do justice to the music of three of his works, Evita, Sunset Boulevard, and The Phantom of the Opera, and he recorded them in London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Although I am not particularly a Lloyd Webber fan, I have to admit it’s a grand undertaking, with some grand results.Mr. Webber comments that “These […]
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2020-10-15 17:04:06
The Lobotomizing Of Eva Perón (This Is Not A Metaphor)
Argentina’s most famous First Lady died of cervical cancer in July 1952, slightly less than a year after she was diagnosed. A researcher has found that, several weeks before her death, she was given a lobotomy, almost certainly without her consent. The ostensible reason was to alleviate her severe pain; just as likely, it was […]
2020-09-14 08:33:06
A Life On-Line: BBC Proms in Cardiff, Igor Levit's live Encounter, chamber music at Hatfield, Simone Kermes on Dreamstage
Tim Mead and La Nuova Musica (taken from videostream) Whilst this week has been notable for live performances in Peron, there has been plenty happening on-line with the final week of the BBC Proms, as well as the start of the on-line Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival, and we also caught up with a new platform aimed at helping artists, Dreamstage.Tuesday 8 September 2020 saw the BBC Proms go to Cardiff for the first time when Ryan Bancroft conducted the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) at Hoddinott Hall. Bancroft is the BBC NOW's new principal conductor and this was his first official engagement, and his proms debut. The concert was titled American Dreams, and featured a group of 20th century, mainly American works for large ensemble/small orchestra (socially distancing the players of the BBC NOW doesn't fit all that many into Hoddinott Hall), with Martinu's Jazz […]
2019-12-18 00:00:00
Wagner - Tristan & Isolde - Nilsson - Vickers - Stein Teatro Colón 1971
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)Tristan und IsoldeMusical Drama in three acts (1865)Jon VickersBirgit NilssonFranz CrassNorman MittelmannGrace HoffmannRicardo YostEugenio ValeriRenato SassolaTulio GagliardoCoro y Orquesta Estables del Teatro ColónHorst SteinRecorded live September 30, 1971Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina3 Cds Memoria Sonora del Teatro Colón no.3flac, cue, logs and full scans Vickers chose Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, the site of his first Otello in 1963, as a less pressured setting than a Tristan under the demanding gaze of Karajan, the perfectionist he so admired. "So that I´d feel more confident with Karajan", he admitted. Birgit Nilsson had first sung isolde at Colon in 1955, in a run interrumped by the overthrow of Juan Domingo Perón. The stage and hall are enormous, she recalled, and gestures had to be enlarged. But the acoustics are magnificent, and singing requires no more effort than in a much smaller theater because voices carry with such amazing ease.The […]
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