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Russian opera singer (1853-1903)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-09-16 21:24:53
Just Arrived on the Shelves
“Robert Craft: The Complete Columbia Album Collection,” a handsomely produced set of 44 CDs issued by Sony Classical, includes a 123-page accompanying booklet beginning with my six-page essay, “A Tireless Worker for the Music of Our Time,” along with photographs and a comprehensive listing of performers and recording data. You can get the whole thing HERE for $5.45 per disc. Much of this set brings back to an eager audience a recorded legacy of historic importance. It reissues on remastered CDs what many of us have still treasured in our collections of vinyl LPs for many decades, beginning with the pathbreaking four-LP set of the complete works of Anton Webern, opp. 1-31. Many of these pieces were known for years, but previously unrecorded, and in some cases unpublished in score. The legend is that all of Webern’s works for orchestra, from the Passacaglia, op. 1, through the Six Pieces, op. […]
2022-04-02 00:00:00
Paul Hindemith Der Dämon (1922) Herodiade (1944) Kammermusik No. 1 Op. 24 No. 1 for 12 Solo Instruments (1921) Kammermusik No. 2 Op. 36 No. 1 for small orchestra (1924) Florian Henschel piano Gisela Zach-Westphal recitation Ensemble Varianti Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Live recording: Schloss Schwetzingen Rokokotheater 18 May 1995 HÄNSSLER CLASSIC HC16014 Flac, digital download, covers The late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was more than just an outstanding lieder singer and an great operatic artist; he was also a phenomenally gifted conductor, certainly the best “singer-conductor” I’ve ever heard. His performances were characterized by a strict attention to the score, clarity of texture, liveliness of tempi and (of course) a singing quality that permeated everything he led. Yet Fischer-Dieskau was remarkably stingy in his podium excursions. He made but three commercial recordings as a conductor: the Brahms Symphony No. 4, Schubert Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8, and Berlioz’ Harold […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-11-25 16:56:21
David Hoose Splits (with Scott Allen Jarrett)
David Hoose rehearses his last BU show? (Sam Brewer photo) Symphony Hall was nearly full on Monday night for a superb concert by the Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus—call it Old Home Week if you will—but the performances would surely have been cherished by those who missed them. Gabriel Fauré’s beloved Requiem (my recent review of a fine rendition with choir and organ at Christ Church in Cambridge is here ) constituted the first half. Last night’s expert and loving performance, the first I had heard in decades with orchestra, reawakened me to the subtleties of its instrumental sound. The score itself shows an unusual distribution. First and second violins play in unison throughout, and are notated on one staff. But there are first and second violas and first and second cellos, on separate staves. In recognition of this, the violas (ten in all) were seated on the […]
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