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2019-02-03 00:00:00
Verdi - Macbeth
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)Sherrill Milnes, Christa Ludwig, Karl Ridderbusch, Carlo CossuttaChor und Orchester der Wiener StaatsoperDir: Karl BöhmLabel: Orfeo d'Or C 766 082 I (2008)Live recording Wiener Staatsoper 18 April 1970Stereo (excellent sound)[flac&cue; cover, inlay&booklet scans]"This 1970 staging of Verdi's pioneering first Shakespeare adaptation came with all the sharpness of character the work demands thanks largely to Christa Ludwig's brilliant debut in the role of Lady Macbeth, Sherrill Milnes's breakthrough on the European stage and Karl Böhm's habitually outstanding musical direction" - ORFEO
2017-05-29 13:55:52
Gone to flowers
Happy Memorial Day US Parterrians! //www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSkn5Mk10Y0 Born on this day in 1860 composer Isaac Albéniz. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjoolfS4rmQ Born on this day in 1892 tenor Mario Chamlee. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlMq9K414uY Born on this day in 1897 composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8eYION7uDk On this day in 1913 Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps premiered in Paris; a riot ensued. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1OQkHybEQ Born on this day in 1932 bass Karl Ridderbusch. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=105_gIA3sXc Happy 69th birthday soprano Linda Esther Gray. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee2YrF8Tsno
2017-04-27 15:59:06
The song is you
While the Metropolitan Opera is in the midst of a run of Der Fliegende Holländer, it seems with the cancellation of the proposed Stefan Herheim production that Met audiences might have to wait a very long time for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. So “Trove Thursday” jumps in with a broadcast conducted by Herbert von Karajan featuring Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo and Karl Ridderbusch. Although Karajan might be identified with Meistersinger due to his two commercial recordings—one from the first postwar Bayreuth Festival in 1951, the other recorded in Dresden in 1970—it doesn’t seem as if he conducted the work very often. After that single run in Bayreuth, he performed it just once during his tenure at the Vienna Staatsoper and then five more times during the 1974 and 1975 Salzburg Easter Festivals. His ’74 Salzburg cast differs considerably from that later EMI recording from just four years earlier—they share only […]
2016-12-31 01:00:00
[…] Latvian Radio Choir, Accentus Laurence Equilbey Naïve V5194 (2009) [flac, cue, log, scans] Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Te Deum Psalm 150 10 Motets* Maria Stader, Sieglinede Wagner, Ernst Haefliger, Peter Lagger Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin Berliner Philharmoniker *Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks Eugen Jochum Deutsche Grammophon 457 743-2 (1999). Recorded 1966-1971 [flac, cue, log, scans] Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) The three Masses (No. 1) Edith Mathis, Marga Schiml, Wiesław Ochman, Karl Ridderbusch (No. 3) Maria, Stader Claudia Hellmann, Erns Haefliger, Kim Borg Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Eugen Jochum Deutsche Grammophon 447 409-2 (1995). Recorded 1962-1972 [flac, cue, log, scans]
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