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Swedish actress
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Gunilla Söderström)
- mezzo-soprano
- Sweden
- actor, opera singer
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2024-03-29
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2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] a host of international stars including such world-renowned figures as the German lyric baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the American violinist/conductor Yehudi Menuhin, who, incidentally, spent most of his performing career in Britain, the Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the Russian cellist Mstislav (Slava) Rostropovich as well as the likes of Kathleen Ferrier, Dennis Brain, Clifford Curzon and the Amadeus String Quartet. A coterie of emerging talent made their way to Suffolk, too, that included Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, the American pianist Murray Perahia and the English-born virtuoso classical guitarist/lutenist Julian Bream while the inaugural festival of 1948 witnessed a staging of Britten’s opera Albert Herring at the Jubilee Hall and the first performance of his cantata Saint Nicolas at the Parish Church with a trio of lectures delivered by E.M. Forster on George Crabbe, Tyrone Guthrie on theatre and Sir Kenneth Clark on East Anglian painters. Following the deaths of Britten and Pears […]
2023-09-29 04:00:00
Alfven, Larsson & Wiren: Swedish Orchestral Works (Leo Berlin, Stig Westerberg, Sixten Ehrling et al)
[…] op.7a [18'12]04 - 06 Cello Concerto, op.10 * [16'43]07 - 10 Romantic Suite from 'The Merchant of Venice', op.22 [11'20]11 - 13 Symphony No. 3, Op.20 [25'37]Mats Lidström- cello *; SAMI Sinfonietta conducted by Stefan SolyomPhono Sveciae PSCD716 [recorded February 2001; CD issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Studio 2 Radiohuset, Stockholm, SwedenRecording engineer: Ian Cederholm; Producer: Cynthia ZetterqvistHugo Alfven:01 Symphony No. 4 in C minor, op.39 'From the Seaward Skerries' [46'09]Elisabeth Söderström- soprano, Gösta Winbergh- tenor, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Stig WesterbergBluebell ABCD001 [recorded February 1979; CD issued 1986][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Concert Hall, Stockholm, SwedenRecording engineer: Olle Bolander; Producers: Håkan Elmquist and Frank HedmanLars-Erik Larsson:01 - 03 Pastoral Suite, op.19 * [12'22]04 - 07 Four Vignettes to Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, op.18 ^ [10'18]08 - 11 Little Serenade, op.12 # [10'18]12 Orchestral Variations, op.50 ~ [16'01]13 Little March […]
2022-12-07 00:00:00
Shostakovich & Mussorgsky: Songs, Chamber music
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1885)Songs and Dances of DeathThe Nursery and other songsSergei Leiferkus, baritoneSemion Skigin, pianoConifer Classics 75605 51229 2 (1995)[flac, cue, log, scans]DOWNLOADModest Mussorgsky (1839-1885)The NurserySergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)The Ugly Duckling, op. 18Alexander Grechaninov (1864-1956)The Lane: 5 Children's Songs, op. 89Elisabeth Söderström, sopranoVladimir Ashkenazy, pianoDecca 476 2511 (2004). Recorded 1977-1978[flac, cue, log, scans]DOWNLOADDmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)Suite on Words of Michelangelo, op. 145a6 Romances on Verses by Raleigh, Burns, Shakespeare, op. 140October, op.132, symphonic poemIldar Abdrazakov, bassBBC PhilharmonicGianandrea NosedaChandos CHAN 10358 (2006)[flac, cue, log, scans]DOWNLOADDmitri ShostakovichPiano Trios no. 1 op. 8 & no. 2 op. 67Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander BlokSusan Gritton, sopranoThe Florestan TrioHyperion CDA67834 (2011)[flac, cue, log, scans]DOWNLOADDmitri ShostakovichPiano Quintet, op. 57String Quartet no. 3, op. 73Belcea QuartetPiotr AnderszeweskiAlpha 360 (2018)[flac, cue, log, scans]DOWNLOAD
2022-11-06 04:58:00
War Memorial Opera House and Veterans BuildingSan Francisco, CAFrom the collection of Lisa HirschSan Francisco Opera's centennial season is underway right now. As part of the festivities, the company has posted, and will be posting more, recorded music from past performances and interviews with people important to the company.You can listen to all of this at Steaming the First Century on the web site. For the interviews, there are also transcripts (yay greater accessibility!). Here's a sampling of what has been posted already:Slavic Sensibilities: Complete recordings of Jenufa from 1980 (starring Elisabeth Söderström as Jenufa and Sena Jurinac as Kostelnicka) and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Cond. Calvin Simmons, with Anja Silja). Excerpts from Boris Godunov, Pikovaya Dama, the US premiere of The Makropulos Case, and Khovanshchina. Parlez-vous français? Complete recordings of Werther and Louise (the latter is now a great rarity). Excerpts from Manon, Les Troyens (with the magnificent Regine! Crespin! as both Cassandre and Didon; Jon Vickers as Enée), […]
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