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German actor, singer and opera singer
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- actor, opera singer, university teacher, film actor
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2024-04-22 03:30:00
A Beethoven Odyssey, Volume 9
[…] sonatas, particularly the late ones and even more particularly the Hammerklavier, in the only possible way. As just one example, a point that struck me upon listening was the range of possible approaches in the fourth and final movement of the Hammerklavier. In the central section of this movement, the titanic fugue, it strikes me that Brawn focuses on clarifying inner details of the intertwining voices. Contrast this with, say, the early 1950’s recording by Rudolph Serkin (which miraculously still sounds quite good), with its stricter adherence to, and even emphasis on, an almost metronomic tempo. Again, I don’t mean that one fails to play in tempo or the other obscures the notes, just that one performance can’t do everything, especially is such a formidable work as this. Which is “correct”, which is “better”? Obviously neither, they are simply different, and both are the products of deep insight (and undoubtedly […]
2023-12-25 04:30:00
Our Favorite Christmas Recordings (CD Reviews)
[…] strong Mormon Tabernacle Choir (now known as The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square) with orchestral accompaniment recorded in glorious sound quality by the engineering team at Telarc. Hard to find but worth the search. Christmas Rhapsody. O Come All Ye Faithful / Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; I'll Be Home for Christmas / "Going Home" (New World Symphony); Santa Claus Is Coming to Town / Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; The Christmas Song; Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer / Let It Snow; Ave Maria; O Come O Come Emanuel / O Little Town of Bethlehem / The First Noel; Winter Wonderland / Jingle Bells; Silent Night / O Holy Night; Sweet Little Jesus Boy / Away in a Manger / What Child Is This?; Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring / Amazing Grace; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; White Christmas. John Bayless, piano. Koch KOC-CD-9610. This is an album that brings a joyous, upbeat […]
2023-11-27 15:17:20
Maria Callas, 2023
[…] Donizetti’s Anna Boleyn, as Imogene and Norma in Bellini’s Il Pirata and Norma, Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Lady Macbeth and Violetta in Verdi's Macbeth and Traviata, and, of course, as Tosca. For three years she sang in smaller theaters, then, in 1950, she appeared, as Aida in La Scala. Even though her relationship with the management was troubled, in the 1950s La Scala became Callas’s home. Neither did Callas have a rapport with Rudolph Bing, the manager of the Met, where she premiered only in 1956. She had a reputation as a temperamental diva, but many of her colleagues thought that it was her exactness that made her difficult to work with. Later in the 1950s, she started experiencing problems with her voice, which may have contributed to her sometimes-erratic behavior. Some think that it was the loss of weight that affected her voice; in the early 1950s […]
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