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Mahler - Vocal and Chamber Music and Arrangements - Pinnock - Caine - Creed - Rozhdestvensky - Tetzlaff
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)Das Lied von der ErdeJohan Botha tenorKaren Cargill mezzosopranoBBC Scottish SODonald RunniclesBBC Music Magazine 2009Das Klagende Lied (original version) Eva Urbanova soprano Jadwiga Rappe contralto Hans Peter Blowchitz tenor Hakan Hagegard baritone Soloist of the Wiener Sangerknaben Hallé Orchestra and Choir Kent Nagano Erato 2000 Symphony No. 4Max Emanuel Cencic boy sopranoLjubljana RSOAnton NanutRed Note 2010Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (Arreangement for small Orchestra) Marlis Petersen soprano Janina Baechle mezzosoprano Wiener Singakademie Wiener Kammerorchester Gilbert Kaplan Avie 2014 Mahler (arr. Schoenberg)Lieder eines Fahrendes GesellenZemlinsky (arr. Austin)Six Songsop. 13Busoni (arr. Stein)Berceuse ElegiaqueWagner: Siegfried IdyllGareth Brynmore John baritoneKatie Bray mezzosopranoRoyal Academy of Music Soloists EnsembleTrevor PinnockLinn 2014 Mahler/Schnittke Piano Quartet Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 Piano Quintet Ludmilla Berlinsky piano Borodin SQ Virgin 1991 Symphony No. 4(Chamber version by E. Stein)Christian Tetzlaff violinChrsitiane Oelze sopranoFestival Ensemble SpannungenCavi 2015 Clytus Gottwald […]
2019-02-12 00:00:00
Dvorák - Rusalka
[…] opens like a sped-up video of a flower blossoming. It may be a calculated mannerism, but it thrills every time. Randova, too, is at her considerable best, but having one singer double as the witch and the foreign princess is an oddity. It was probably meant to equate the two characters, who appear only in separate acts. The witch is usually a heavy mezzo, nearly a contralto, and the princess a soprano—Dolora Zajick and Eva Urbanová on the Mackerras recording—so the doubling is a challenge that Randova meets successfully, but I don’t think it adds anything to the drama. Perhaps the visual aspects contributed more on stage. Like his female compatriots, Dvorsky is in fabulous form; his ringing tenor reminiscent of Corelli, ready for Cavaradossi or Radames, complete with a hint of sob. Nesterenko, imported from Moscow rather than Prague, is a surprisingly weak link, occasionally sounding like a fish […]
2017-01-31 15:01:48
White blossoms scorched by the sun
[…] the radiant sound the composer would have wanted. The notated vocal sob within “Rusalku prostovlasou” is perfectly achieved, and the tricky rhythms of Act Two’s well-disguised cabaletta “Ó marno to je [Oh, it’s in vain]” hold no terrors for her. Larin’s Prince is a trifle labored, but forthright and likable. The Goblin’s music sits in the sweet spot for Franz Hawlata, who has excellent breath control and is a witty actor. Larissa Diadkova and Eva Urbanová bring firepower and hauteur to, respectively, Jezibaba and the Foreign Princess. Carsen makes Jezibaba and the Goblin lovers, and Diadkova and Hawlata have such good chemistry in the bit we see that I wish there had been more. Karine Deshayes‘s incisive, full-toned Turnspit is a considerable asset. The 75-year-old Michel Sénéchal‘s Gamekeeper is an exemplar of character singing with emphasis on “character.” His ear is not as acute as it once had been; his […]
2016-12-24 01:00:00
[…] and orchestra Eight pieces for clarinet, viola and piano Paul Meyer clarinet, Gerard Caussé viola, René Duchable piano Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon Kent Nagano Erato 2292-45483-2 (1990) [flac, cue, log, scans] Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) Pan. Symphonic Poem Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Zdenek Bílek Marco Polo 8.223325 (1990) [flac, cue, log, scans] Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Rusalka Renée Fleming, Ben Heppner, Dolora Zajick, Franz Hawlata, Eva Urbanová, The Kühn Mixed Choir Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Mackerras Decca 460 568-2 (1998) [flac, cue, log, scans] Franz Lehár (1870-1948) Gold und Silber; waltzes from: Die lustige Witwe, Wo die Lerche singt, Giuditta, Der Graf von Luxemburg, Zigeunerliebe, Eva Wiener Johann Strauss-Orchester Willi Boskovsky EMI CDC 7 47020 2 (1983) [flac, cue, log, scans] Antonio Smareglia (1854-1929) Orchestral music from the operas Cornelius Schut, Il vassallo […]
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