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2019-02-06 10:00:41
The best recordings of Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ
[…] certainly the greatest champion in his day, Davis undertook his final Berlioz cycle as the London Symphony Orchestra’s music director – a post he held from 1995-2006. By then he had already made two recordings of the piece – the first in 1960, with the Goldsborough Orchestra and soloists including Elsie Morrison, Peter Pears and John Cameron (Decca); and the second in 1976 with the LSO and principals including Janet Baker, Eric Tappy and Jules Bastin (Philips). Both of these have much to recommend them, but the result of a lifetime’s experience of the score and the impetus of a live recording in the Barbican Hall give this final version from 2006 particular electricity. Davis brings lightness and lucidity to Berlioz’s score – ‘it’s very delicate chamber music as a whole’, he once said – but his performance also reflects the work’s operatic or even (as Davis also suggested) cinematic […]
2017-03-18 17:02:23
It is the strain I heard within my soul
On this day in 1910, The Pipe of Desire by Frederick Shepherd Converse premiered at the Metropolitan Opera. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvS8yNy8q8 Born on this day in 1844 composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwY8VUHcwMs Born on this day in 1882 composer Gian Francesco Malipiero. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=59wbt8Z7Xso Born on this day in 1900 soprano Ofelia Nieto. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhTlgkuS9eI Happy 88th birthday bass John Macurdy. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIH65pn45H8 Born on this day in 1933 bass Jules Bastin. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqmBnsAlts Happy 67th birthday conductor James Conlon. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txc4LipqS0U
2017-01-29 01:00:00
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) SALOME Version française du compositeur French version by the composer Opéra de Lyon dir : Kent Nagano Virgin Classics VCD 7 91477-2 (stereo) Recorded 29 May 1990, published 1991 Currently out-of-print FLAC images, cuesheets, logs, scans "On 5 July 1905, shortly after the completion of the Salome score in Berlin and well before its first performance, Strauss wrote to inform his publisher Adolf Fürstner that he himself would undertake a French version of his new composition. His adaptation would retain the existing orchestration but alter the vocal line to accommodate Oscar Wilde's original French Salomé text..." from the accompanying booklet Salomé - Karen Huffstodt Hérode - Jean DupouyJokanaan - José Van DamHérodias - Hélène JossoudNarraboth - Jean-Luc Viala Jules Bastin, Yves Bisson, Fernand Dumont, Guy Flechter, Alain Gabriel, Antoine GarcinGeorges Gautier, Christopher Goldsack,Hélène Perraguin, Léonard Pezzino,Roger Pujol, Vincent […]
2016-09-23 01:00:00
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) The Gambler Vladimir Galuzin, Liubov Kazarnovskaya, Sergei Alexashkin, Elena Obraztsova Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg Valery Gergiev Philips 454 559-2 (1999) [flac, cue, log, scans] Sergei Prokofiev L'Amour des trois oranges Catherine Dubosc, Jean-Luc Viala, Georges Gautier, Gabriel Bacquier, Jules Bastin Chœurs et orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon Kent Nagano Virgin Classics 0777 7595662 7 (1989) [flac, cue, log, scans] Sergei Prokofiev L'Ange de feu (The Fiery Angel) Jane Rhodes, Xavier Depraz Chœur de la Radiodiffusion Télévision française Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris Charles Bruck Accord 472 723-2 (2003) [flac, cue, log, scans with libretto]. Recorded 1957 First performed in 1954 by the same artists. Sung in French. Sergei Prokofiev War and Peace Yevgeny Kibkalo, Galina Vishnevskaya, Vladimir Petrov, Irina Arkhipova, Alexei Maslennikov, Pavel Lisitsian Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, […]
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