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2020-04-11 23:00:00
One act operas: Leoni, Ullmann, Trojahn, Poulenc, Hyde, Tchaikovsky, etcetera
[…] flac tracks, cover, libretto Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Iolanta Anna Netrebko Slovenian PO Emmanuel Villaume Deutsche Grammophon 2015 digital download, booklet Manfred Trojahn (1949) Orest Dietrich Henschel Rossematy Joshua Netherlands PO Marc Albrecht Challenge Classics 2013 digital download, booklet Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) Der Kaiser von Atlantis Holderlin Lieder Gewandhaus Leipzig Lothar Zagrosek Decca 1994 flac, cue, log, scans
2020-03-01 00:00:00
Mahler - van Dieren - Ravel - Delage - Stravinsky - Zemlinsky - Oriental Inspirations
[…] evokes the sensual aspects of Debussy’s late impressionist style, or the giddy chromaticism exploding from Strauss’ pen as he sketched out Die Frau ohne Schatten. At the same time, Zemlinsky’s thicker writing sometimes foreshadows Messiaen’s stained-glass sound blocks.Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Julia Varady graced Lorin Maazel’s DG studio recording with extraordinary presence and authority, and again here, to a greater degree. The difference lies in the immediacy and resonance of a live concert environment. True, Lothar Zagrosek’s Vienna Radio Symphony may not match the sumptuous perfection of Maazel’s Berlin Philharmonic, yet shrill, spotlit engineering compromises the latter.I wouldn’t want to be without Orfeo’s coupling– Hartmann’s valedictory Gesangsszene for baritone and orchestra. Here Fischer-Dieskau brings out the harrowing imagery of Jean Giraudoux’s text with more color, inner meaning, and vocal flexibility than in his premiere recording of 20 years earlier. Orfeo provides full texts, translations, and notes that discuss the performances as […]
2019-08-19 20:44:00
Bertold Goldschmidt - Beatrice Cenci, DVD Bregenz
Berthold Goldschmidt's Beatrice Cenci at last on DVD, from the Bregenz Festival in 2018, conducted by Johannes Debus, directed by Johannes Erath, sung in German translation. Some time after Goldschmidt's death, I found a trove of his recordings and those by many in his circle, in a small local Oxfam. I bought as much as I could afford but told everyone. Suddenly, someone with more money than me swooped them all up. Later, talking to the composer Kalevi Aho, we deduced that the 200 or so CDs must have belonged to Goldschmidt himself since all the other composers were connected. Must have been the clearance of his estate ! Luckily, I did manage to grab what might have been Goldschmidt's own copy of Beatrice Cenci, with Lothar Zagrosek conducting the Deutsches-symphonie Orchestra, Berlin, from the world premiere in August, 1994. Ian Bostridge sang the small part of the Page at the […]
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