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Wot no Bach? I was musing the other day, while listening to the Early Music Show on Radio 3, about w
2019-12-20 00:00:00
Simply the Best (?) Ballet Music
Disc One:01. - 04. Alexandre Luigini - Ballet Egyptien. Suite [14'03]Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Anatole Fistoulari (recorded 1959)05. - 10. Leo Delibes - Coppelia. Suite [22'02]11. - 15. Leo Delibes - Sylvia. Suite [21'38]Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Robert Irving (recorded 1960)16. - 22. Charles Gounod: Faust. Ballet Suite [16'34]Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Thomas Beecham (recorded 1959)Disc Two:01. - 06. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake, op.20. Suite* [29'11]07. - 09. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -Sleeping Beauty, op.66. Suite [15'48]10. - 17. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -The Nutcracker, op.71. Suite [31'56]Yehudi Menuhin- violin*; Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Efrem Kurtz (recorded 1958 & 1960)Disky Classics DCL703282 (CDs issued 1998)(CD rip; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans) Recording venues, engineers and producers: undisclosed.Despite the naff title - Wot no Romeo and Juliet or Cinderella - this is a compilation of top-draw recordings issued by EMI's Dutch offshoot Disky. Appearing to be aimed at […]
2018-04-18 22:25:00
10 Questions with Kristine McIntyre
Kristine McIntyre Stage Director of Florencia en el Amazonas 1. Where were you born and raised? Philadelphia, then San Diego. 2. If you weren’t a stage director, what profession would you be in? A film director or a doctor (I was pre-med in college. I was supposed to be a neurosurgeon). 3. The first opera I ever directed was… The Barber of Seville - remounting a production for the Wot tour. First show of my own was Dialogues of the Carmelites! 4. My favorite opera is… ...whatever I'm working on at the moment. Seriously, directing is like falling in love. You should be faithful - at least for a while. 5. My favorite food is… Chocolate. In every form. 6. People would be surprised to know… I love baseball and knitting. 7. If I could cruise down any river in the world, it would be ... ...through […]
2018-01-28 12:01:00
Shouldering the pain
I've done something unspeakable to my shoulder. It may be a delayed reaction to the return journey from Johannesburg last week, with bad seat position overnight plus some ungainly moves with a heavy suitcase at Heathrow. Yesterday I spent in a fog of agony and the strongest over-the-counter painkillers Superdrug could provide, thanks to which I managed to attend a wonderful performance of Das Rheingold by the LPO/Jurowski at the Festival Hall, but without much brainpower to respond.Friends have been kindly suggesting all manner of treatments, but I'm hesitating. That's because the very word "chiropractor" brings back a whopper of a memory from my college days: my sorry year and a half trying to recover from tennis elbow as a music student, in a university that should have known better, in a town that loathed its students on principle.It's struck me recently - notably in the Hammerklavier project and the […]
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