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Puccini - La Fanciulla del West - Decca HD remastering
Giacomo PucciniLA FANCIULLA DEL WESTRenata Tebaldi, Mario del MonacoCornell MacNeil, Giorgio TozziOrchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Romadir : Franco CapuanaOriginal stereo recording: Rome 1958Decca Analog Golden Age Volume One Blu-Ray audio [P] 2016High resolution audio files (24 bit/192 kHz) prepared from the original master tapes at Abbey Road StudiosDigital remaster at Universal Music Mexico FLAC files, scans, no librettoA review from Gramophone, January 1989 Recorded in 1958, this vintage Decca issue brings an astonishing example of early stereo engineering...Capuana directs an expansive performance, but you have only to hear the haunting song of the roving minstrel, Jake Wallace, right at the start, "Che farrano i vecchi miei", as sung here by Giorgio Tozzi, to realize the unique atmospheric beauty of this version, with the off-stage voice as precisely placed as those on-stage. I remember an American critic comparing the sound of the Gramophone Award-winning DG version conducted by Zubin Mehta unfavourably […]
2016-09-29 08:08:52
I am not carefree
Born on this day in 1942 singer and actress Madeline Kahn. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uai7M4RpoLU Born on this day in 1858 conductor and composer Leopoldo Mugnone. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6bdJO0UxEk Born on this day in 1876 conductor and composer Georg Vollerthun. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2sCEKc4cnA Born on this day in 1894 conductor Franco Capuana. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxoi1qX6FE Born on this day in 1916 tenor Josef Traxel. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7OGTM_qviI Happy 88th birthday conductor Martin Turnovsky. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TcAmX0lQmc Happy 87th birthday tenor Harry Theyard. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkhqT5wCXVg Happy 86th birthday conductor Richard Bonynge. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6BrdnDn_a4 Happy 71st birthday soprano Lella Cuberli. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYTffwMs1Y4 Happy 66th birthday countertenor Andrew Dalton. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZbyKtDZ_Eo
2015-09-29 17:37:44
Mr. Maine is feeling no pain!
Oh this day in 1954 A Star is Born starring Judy Garland and James Mason premiered at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMw7LuqU_k4 Born on this day in 1858 conductor and composer Leopoldo Mugnone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6bdJO0UxEk Born on this day in 1876 conductor and composer Georg Vollerthun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2sCEKc4cnA Born on this day in 1894 conductor Franco Capuana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxoi1qX6FE Born on this day in 1916 tenor Josef Traxel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7OGTM_qviI Happy 86th birthday conductor Martin Turnovsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TcAmX0lQmc Happy 85th birthday conductor Richard Bonynge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6BrdnDn_a4 Born on this day in 1942 actress Madeline Kahn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6jMT8jZWFY Happy 70th birthday soprano Lella Cuberli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYTffwMs1Y4 Happy 65th birthday countertenor Andrew Dalton […]
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2015-01-15 12:59:55
A blanket term misused: What is (and isn’t) verismo?
Enrico Caruso in a publicity photo for Pagliacci, 1908. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons Few words in the operatic lexicon have been misused as regularly as verismo. Often used as a blanket term for all Italian operas written between the 1890s and the 1920s, verismo more properly denotes a type of opera with very specific musical and dramatic characteristics. Operatic verismo was a response to a succession of late 19th-century literary movements: particularly the naturalistic French novels of Émile Zola and his contemporaries and – more directly – the literary verismo movement that sprang up in the early 1880s, led by the Sicilian authors Giovanni Verga and Luigi Capuana . Where French naturalist novels tended to be urban in setting and were driven by a desire for social change, their Italian counterparts were often rural and far less idealistic in motivation. Italian composers had started to become interested in depicting the […]
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