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Born in 1940, in England, Christopher Evans-Ironside was a songwriter, composer, and music producer based in Hamburg, Germany. At age 21, Evans-Ironside arranged and wrote music for renowned singer Gerd Böttcher, and later met Drafi Deutscher, with whom he worked with closely for many years. Other artists who he worked with include vocalists Vicky […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-02-21 07:20:33
The full Egmont: Beethoven's incidental music linked by extracts of Goethe's play
Beethoven Incidental music to Egmont; Olga Bezsmertna, Matthias Brandt, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Dirk Kaftan; MDG Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 February 2019 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) Beethoven's complete incidental music to Goethe's Egmont with extracts from the playBeethoven's music for Goethe's play Egmont is best known for the overture which has rightly developed an independent life of its own. On this disc on the Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) label, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn and conductor Dirk Kaftan give us the complete incidental music with nine numbers in addition to the overture. The orchestra is joined by soprano Olga Bezsmertna, and actor Matthias Brandt gives a spoken narration based on Goethe's play. Beethoven wrote the music in 1809 and it premiered in 1810 with Goethe highly praising it. Coming two years after Beethoven completed his Symphony No. 5 the subject of the play, the heroic sacrifice […]
2017-02-14 14:00:30
The right box
Let’s call this meeting to order. My name is Patrick and I’m a boxset-aholic. I can pinpoint the exact moment it happened for me. In 1996 RCA released an 11-disc overview of the career of Leontyne Price in honor of her 70th birthday. Many tracks on this set had never been released on CD. I remember the cost was so spectacular I contrived to purchase it through a friend who worked in a record store (remember those?) and thereby secured his 20% employee discount. The Metropolitan Opera started issuing historic broadcast recordings in 1974 on LP (now called vinyl), with treasures from their decades long backlog of Saturday morning radio relays. These included Gioconda with Zinka Milanov, Richard Tucker and Leonard Warren, Romeo et Juliette with Bidu Sayao and Jussi Bjorling, Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior in Tristan und Isolde. They released nearly 30 in the series over the […]
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