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Opera Recitals Post 3 of 3 (Domingo. P, Vickers. J, Milnes. S, London. G, Wunderlich. F)
[…] Das Rheingold) Wagner: Leb wohl...Loge, hör! 'Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music' (from Die Walküre) Gruenberg: Standin` in the need of prayer (from Emperor Jones) Mussorgsky: Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Moralt (conductor) Orchestra Of The Metropolitan Opera, Jean Morel & Kurt Adler (conductors) Fritz Wunderlich Stardiskotech Mozart: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte) Mozart: Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton (from Die Zauberflöte) Flotow: Ach, so fromm (from Martha) Verdi: Questa o quella (from Rigoletto) (sung in German) Verdi: La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) (sung in German) Puccini: Che gelida manina (from La Bohème) (sung in German) Puccini: Nessun dorma (from Turandot) (sung in German) Puccini: Non piangere, Liù! (from Turandot) (sung in German) Puccini: Addio, fiorito asil (from Madama Butterfly) (sung in German) Mascagni: O Lola, ch'ai di latti la cammisa (from Cavalleria Rusticana) (sung in […]
2020-04-21 07:48:26
Le Banquet Céleste's new recording of Alessandro Stradella's late 17th century oratorio San Giovanni Battista reveals a form in transition, looking back to Cavalli & forward to High Baroque
[…] for Queen Christina of Sweden (who lived in Rome as a Roman Catholic after her abdication). But he led a dissolute life and at one point attempted to embezzle money from the Church. An affair with the mistress of a Venetian nobleman led to innumerable problems and assassination attempts, so much so that his life rather reads like a melodrama, and he has been the basis for operas by Cesar Franck (unfinished) and Friedrich von Flotow (premiered in Hamburg in 1844) amongst others.Stradella also found time, between all this other activity, to write music. There are at least six operas, more than 170 cantatas and six oratorios.The form of San Giovanni Battista owes quite a lot to Stradella's experience of opera, it is made up of fluid dialogue in recitative, which flows into ariosos and arias, whilst the short choruses seem to hark back to madrigals and to polyphony. Though […]
2018-06-21 03:18:00
The Only Operetta Album You'll Ever Need! (CD review)
Various soloists, conductors, and orchestras. RCA 74321 72916 2.Chalk one up for the truth in advertising laws (if they exist). RCA's compilation disc, "The Only Operetta Album You'll Ever Need!," probably really is the only operetta album most casual listeners will ever need. Culled from RCA's back catalogue of operettas from the p ast sixty-plus years, the collection contains practically every major number even the dedicated operetta buff could list off the top of his head. The program, which, by the way, is arranged like a mini operetta in itself, begins with the overture to Strauss's Die Fledermaus, played by old-hand Robert Stolz with the Vienna Symphony. It zips along with grace and exuberance, properly setting the stage for the songs to come. There are nineteen selections all told, and among them are Strauss's "Als flotter Geist" sung by Fritz Wunderlich, Lehar's "Lippen schweigen" sung by Montserrat Caballe, Flotow's "M'appari" sung […]
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