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2024-04-21 13:00:14
Turandot
Olga Maslova, SeokJong Baek, Carlo Bosi, Simon Lim, and Valeria Sepe are conducted by Zubin Mehta in a live broadcast from Florence The post appeared first on parterre box.
2024-04-19 10:31:18
Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterOpera Rara joined with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder for this semi-staged performance of the original version of Verdi’s operaTwenty-five years separate the action in the prologue and first act of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, and very nearly the same stretch of time elapsed between the opera’s first incarnation – whose opening night in 1857 the composer wrote off, a touch unjustly, as a “fiasco” – and its revised second version, premiered in 1881. The latter has more or less kept a foothold in the standard repertory ever since; but it’s the 1857 original, which Opera Rara, those tireless travellers of opera’s byways and branch lines, have polished up in a brand new edition for a studio recording and this concert performance at Bridgewater Hall.Contours of plot and libretto remain largely intact. The famous Council Chamber scene is the most keenly felt absence – the town square confrontation, which […]
2024-04-18 04:00:00
Mayr: Elena (Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus)
Johann Simon Mayr (1763-1845)Elena (Opera Semiseria n Two Acts-1814) Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus(Period Instruments)Naxos 8.660426-63 (2021) 2-Disc set [Flac & Scans]
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] Royal Albert Hall, London. Recordings from BBC Sound Archives.Recording engineers: not given; Producers: Anthony Sargent and CB Samuelson* As with the Rachmaninov, this is the only recording of a Beethoven Concerto by Donohoe that I know of.George Gershwin:01 Rhapsody in Blue (original version, orch F Grofe) * [16'14]02 - 19 George Gershwin's Songbook [19'10]20 - 22 Piano Concerto in F major ^ [31'53]Peter Donohoe- piano; London Sinfonietta* and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra^ conducted by Simon RattleEMI CDC754280-2 [recorded December 1986 & January 1987* and December & October^ 1990; first issued 1991 [CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recording venues: CTS Studios, Wembley*, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London and Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, UK^.Recording engineers: Mike Sheady & John Kurlander*; Producers: Andrew Keener & David Murray*Edward Elgar:01 - 03 String Quartet in E minor, op.83 [26'25]04 - 06 Piano Quintet in A […]
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