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Thomas Schippers conducts Carlo Bergonzi, Leontyne Price, Cornell MacNeil, and Giorgio Tozzi in a broadcast from 1962
2024-02-26 00:00:00
[…] Boys ChorusNew York PhilharmonicRecorded in 1987Symphony No. 10: AdagioWiener PhilharmonikerRecorded in 1974CD 6 Symphony No. 4Helmut Wittek sopranoConcertgebouworkest AmsterdamRecorded in 1987 CD 7 Symphony No. 5Wiener PhilharmonikerRecorded in 1987CD 8 & 9 Symphony No. 6Wiener PhilharmonikerRecorded in 1988Symphony No. 7: Langsam. Allegro risolutoCD 10 Symphony No. 7 (cont.)New York PhilharmonicRecorded in 1985CD 11 Symphony No. 9 (Mov. 1-3)CD 12 Symphony No. 9 (Finale)Concertgebouworkest AmsterdamRecorded in 1985Symphony No. 8: Part ICD 13 Symphony No. 8: Part IIMargaret Price sopranoAgnes Baltsa mezzoKenneth Riegel tenorJosé van Dam bassWiener PhilharmonikerRecorded in 1975 Deutsche Grammophon 2006
2024-02-19 04:16:00
Florence Price: Symphony 4 - William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (streaming review)
by Bill Heck Florence Price: Symphony 4; William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra. DG CC 72970 A few weeks ago, I was first exposed to the music of William Dawson (1899 - 1990) in the form of a concert featuring the Negro Folk Symphony. What an introduction that was! This is the kind of work that, as the saying goes, brings down the house, and it certainly did that evening. Naturally I went looking for a recording of the piece only to find that it was part of a recent DG release, and thus an obvious choice for a review here. Nice coincidence, eh? This release is the final one of a series of recordings produced by DG featuring orchestral music of Florence Price played by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Indeed, one of the CDs in this series (Symphonies 1 & 3) was already reviewed […]
2024-02-15 10:28:00
Madama Butterfly, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 14 February 2024
Cio-Cio-San – Sonya Yoncheva Suzuki – Natalia Skrycka Kate Pinkerton – Rebecka Wallroth Pinkerton – Stefan Pop Sharpless – Carles Pachon Goro – Gonzalo Quinchahual Prince Yamadori – Taehan Kim Uncle Bonze – Grigory Shkarupa Commissioner – Dionysios Avgerinos Cio-Cio-San’s Mother – Verena Allertz Aunt – Michèle Cusson Uncle – Insoo Hwoang Child – Carl BeymeDirector – Eike GramssRevival director – Marcin ŁakomickiDesigns – Peter SykoraLighting – Irene SelkaStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinDomingo Hindoyan (conductor)Images (from the 1991 premiere): Gianmarco Bresadola Happy St Valentine’s Day! Ash Wednesday and an opera about sex tourism. Whatever we might think about the latter two, many will agree that the coincidence is well deserved by the pseudo-feast of heart-shaped balloons and ‘special menus’ at three times the Price, a third of the culinary quality. In retrospect, or rather more or less as soon as I had arrived, I could not help […]
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