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2020-06-04 14:28:42
Holding out for a hero
Trove Thursday finally welcomes Wagner’s Lohengrin arriving in a concert performance conducted by Georg Solti with Siegfried Jerusalem, Julia Varady, Eva Randová, Hermann Becht, Hans Sotin and Wolfgang Schöne.
2017-06-23 01:00:00
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Die Brautwahl Siegfried Vogel, Carola Höhn, Graham Clark, Vinson Cole, Pär Lindskog, Roman Trekel, Günter von Hannen Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim Teldec 3984-25250-2 (1999). Recorded 1993 [flac, cue, log, scans] Ferruccio Busoni Arlecchino Turandot Ernst Theo Richter, Tomas Mohr, Wolfgang Holzmair, Philippe Huttenlocher, Stefan Dahlberg, Suzanne Mentzer Mechthild Gessendorf, Franz-Josef Selig, Markus Schäfer, Michael Kraus, Falk Struckmann, Gabriele Sima, Anne-Marie Rodde Choeurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon Kent Nagano Virgin Classics 0 777 7 59313 2 7 (1993) [flac, cue, log, scans] Ferruccio Busoni Doktor Faust Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Christian Kohn, William Cochran, Anton de Ridder, Hildegard Hillebrecht, Hans Sotin, Franz Grundheber Chor und Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Ferdinand Leitner Deutsche Grammophon 427 413-2 (1989). Recorded 1969 [flac, cue, log, scans] Bonus CD Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) Il prigioniero Maurizio Mazzieri, Giulia Barrera, […]
2016-09-10 18:13:29
I’m nacred
On this day in 1868 Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles premiered in Paris. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQQ3uEeMEFI Born on this day in 1659 composer Henry Purcell and born on this day in 1941 conductor Christopher Hogwood. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVzjMDgKGCw Born on this day in 1714 composer Niccolò Jommelli. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPcZk8FXNj0 On this day in 1838 Berlioz’ Benvenuto Cellini premiered in Paris. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lpxazJw0c Happy 77th birthday bass Hans Sotin. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=msAuzupA1yY Born on this day in 1939 soprano Judith Nelson. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZO5j4a4_gg Happy 72nd birthday baritone Thomas Allen. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=W76Tn1QJsZ0 Happy 69th birthdays stage director David Pountney and composer Adriano Guarnieri . //www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_f1K2Wqgjw //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyxoIfc9ow Happy 67th birthday soprano Francoise Pollet. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bua9iAL-N2g Happy 59th birthday tenor and director Laurence Dale. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY7cxMJQYgI
2016-02-04 17:40:48
Love hears, love knows, love answers
This week “Trove Thursday” brings a rare in-house recording of a visit to the Metropolitan Opera House by the Staatsoper Hamburg presenting Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with a deluxe cast—Arlene Saunders, Tatiana Troyanos, Loren Driscoll, Tom Krause and Hans Sotin—conducted by Charles Mackerras. In addition to the Rake, Hamburg, headed at that time by Rolf Liebermann, presented to New York audiences that summer such crowd-pleasers as Gunther Schuller’s The Visitation, Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, Klebe’s Jacobowsky und der Oberst, Janácek’s Jenufa and Berg’s Lulu starring Anneliese Rothenberger. At the time American singers were a strong presence in many German companies; besides our Rake trio, Felicia Weathers and Richard Cassilly were also prominently featured during the Hamburg visit. By 1967 Driscoll was already a noted Tom Rakewell having done it ten years earlier at the Santa Fe Opera in the production that commenced Stravinsky’s celebrated association with that house. Driscoll sang […]
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