Reply With QuotePC GBP 31 but download is GBP 24. Another Macbeth recording is not in my plans but if it was, that cover might do it for me!Originally Posted by sospiro
Renée Fleming as Thaïs is gorgeous, enough to confuse any man and Thomas Hampson as Athanael is also wonderful, voice like an American Oak.
This one however, I will come back to another day.
Massenet: Don Quichotte
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Quichotte), Anna Kiknadze (Dulcinée) & Andrei Serov (Sancho Panza)
Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers Ensemble & Mariinsky Orchestra & Soloists,
Valery Gergiev
Recorded 27-29 May 2011 Concert Hall Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia
PC GBP 31 but download is GBP 24. Another Macbeth recording is not in my plans but if it was, that cover might do it for me!
I wouldn't buy the CD it is very hard to find and very expensive version new and used, join spotify premium and get that and much much more at your fingertips
Spotify Premium is something else!
It took me a while to figure out how to navigate the thing - I was nearly ready to throw in the towel, but DA had presented too many temptations to give up so quickly. I don't like not being able to save entire albums I want to listen to, but, considering everything else, can live with it.
I just listened to this:
which includes most of what I already have, but really liked the Luisa Miller excerpt.
Spotify also has this, which I believe has been mentioned here sometime in the past few months:
but haven't yet listened to it - because, right now, I'm listening to this:
Spotify offers quite a selection of Lady Macbeths: Callas, Verrett, Gencer, Sass, Ludwig and Rysanek (and I've probably missed a few).
I don't know whether to listen to the Sass or the Gencer next. Nice problem to have. Thanks, DA, for the advice!
Most albums can be saved to your album playlist/library.......when playing album on right hand side of player with track listing there is usually a "save" button at the top, push that and changes to "saved" and tracks have check marks next to them.
To play a saved album on left side under "your music" heading click "albums" and you will see your saved albums.......
I can't even begin to tell you how much I love this Lady M performance, Callas is magnificent here and give us a vivid unforgettable tour de force performance, 1952 live sound is good enough to allow us to experience all the nuances, this is my reference performance......
but haven't yet listened to it - because, right now, I'm listening to this:
This a year before Callas was even signed to major label EMI contract
There has been a few mentions recently of Jess Thomas' Lohengrin recently and whilst I do not have that recording it did make me want to listen to Lohengin again.
Wagner: Lohengrin
Siegfried Jerusalem (Lohengrin), Cheryl Studer (Elsa), Waltraud Meier (Ortrud), Hartmut Welker (Telramund), Kurt Moll (King Heinrich)
Vienna Philharmonic,
Claudio Abbado
Recorded Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Wien 11/1991; 5 & 6/1992
I do love this opera so much that another purchase has got to be considered...
Having listened to L'Italiana in Algeri, I wanted some more of Agnes Baltsa.
Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Agnes Baltsa (Romeo), Edita Gruberova (Giulietta), Dano Raffanti (Tebaldo), Gwynne Howell (Capellio), John Tomlinson (Lorenzo)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
Riccardo Muti
Recorded live April 1984 ROH Covent Garden
I know. Common sense tells me so ... but I do love to have the actual CDI wouldn't buy the CD it is very hard to find and very expensive version new and used, join spotify premium and get that and much much more at your fingertips
"Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables."
FRANZ SCHALK, attributed, Losing the Plot in Opera: Myths and Secrets of the World's Great Operas
I haven't listened to this in weeks - I've put it at the top of my list for tomorrow. Maybe I'll go one better and listen to Beatrice di Tenda in the afternoon, and have myself a good old wallow!Having listened to L'Italiana in Algeri, I wanted some more of Agnes Baltsa.
Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Agnes Baltsa (Romeo), Edita Gruberova (Giulietta), Dano Raffanti (Tebaldo), Gwynne Howell (Capellio), John Tomlinson (Lorenzo)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
Riccardo Muti
Recorded live April 1984 ROH Covent Garden
Next on the list - Jérusalem.
"Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables."
FRANZ SCHALK, attributed, Losing the Plot in Opera: Myths and Secrets of the World's Great Operas
I wanted to hear more Gruberova so
Verdi: Rigoletto
Renato Bruson (Rigoletto), Edita Gruberova (Gilda), Neil Shicoff (Il Duca), Robert Lloyd (Sparafucile), Brigitte Fassbaender (Maddalena), Jean Rigby (Giovanna), Kurt Rydl (Monterone), Armando Gabba (Marullo), William Matteuzzi (Borsa), Geoffrey Moses (Il Conte di Ceprano), Maria Grazia Pittavini (La Contessa di Ceprano), Maria Grazia Pittavini (Un paggio)
Coro e Orchestrea dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia,
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Recorded 1984
Then I wanted to listen to more Verdi...
Verdi: La forza del destino
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato, Cesare Siepi, Silvio Maionica, Gabriella Carturan & Piero di Palma
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma,
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Recorded - Rome, July 1955
The power of fate.
Tragic opera, very moving.
Though when Alvaro throws down his pistol...
and it accidently discharges...
and wounds the old man...
fatally.
Does anyone think this is slightly funny? There is a few seconds here when I smile and very briefly see Mr. Bean before he quickly changes back to Don Alvaro.
Thanks, DA - it works!Most albums can be saved to your album playlist/library.......when playing album on right hand side of player with track listing there is usually a "save" button at the top, push that and changes to "saved" and tracks have check marks next to them.
To play a saved album on left side under "your music" heading click "albums" and you will see your saved albums.......
Yesterday:
The question about Hilde Gueden reminded me I hadn't listened to Daphne in quite some time.
and
Right now, courtesy of Spotify:
Lovely. May have to buy the CD...
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