Reply With QuoteFinished sorting papers and have moved on to sorting book case. This chore requires something more dramatic and I think Boris fits the bill nicely.
The TMS team ought to have World Heritage status!Originally Posted by Clayton
"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
Finished sorting papers and have moved on to sorting book case. This chore requires something more dramatic and I think Boris fits the bill nicely.
"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
Good thing I read through all the posts before hitting reply. I was really searching, trying to figure out what was wrong with me that I couldn't recall an opera so well known that folks refer to it as TMS...
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Finished sorting papers and have moved on to sorting book case. This chore requires something more dramatic and I think Boris fits the bill nicely.
But doesn't really qualify as light and frothy!
Sounds wonderful. Am I safe in assuming that Act III is included?
Great minds do thing alike! For my walk yesterday, another great Meistersinger recording:
Yes sorry, Clayton and I went ever so slightly off topic! TMS - Test Match Special is the name of the programme/commentary team for Test cricket. They are legendary.
Un giorno di regno was the light and frothy one to go with sorting the papers. Boris Godunov was for the book case job which was much more difficult!
"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
It is very good and I do recommend it and it is the entire opera
Another mammoth walk! Actually I have the Kubelik out on my desk (and the Vienna Solti) in case rain interrupted play but I might just listen to the Kempe again next.
And, today:
I have to admit that the Overture never fails to make me smile. As most folks know (though I don't know about overseas), the center, lively part of the Overture was used as the theme music for the TV cowboy show "The Lone Ranger" when I was about 10 years old. It became so ingrained that even now I am unable to separate the two emotionally.
Before I even knew there was such a things as opera, my father used to sit me on his knees and give me a horsy ride while singing this. At a crucial moment he would let me fall back nearly to the ground, squealing with excitement. I could never get enough of this game and played it with my own children when they were toddlers, using the same tune.And, today:
I have to admit that the Overture never fails to make me smile. As most folks know (though I don't know about overseas), the center, lively part of the Overture was used as the theme music for the TV cowboy show "The Lone Ranger" when I was about 10 years old. It became so ingrained that even now I am unable to separate the two emotionally.
Natalie
Just when I thought things were calming down in work insanity returned. I have had a Medea week.
I didn't think that Vinci's Artaserse could be topped but this is even better - the music gorgeous, the orchestra more exciting and focused, the countertenor voices more sharply differentiated and the singing simply amazing (perhaps Vince Yi could do with some more vocal colours and a pinch of vibrato, but that is mere quibbling). Highly recommended A++.
Vinci, Leonardo: Catone in Utica
Max Emanuel Cencic (Arbace), Franco Fagioli (Cesare), Valer Sabadus (Marzia), Martin Mitterutzner (Fulvio), Vince Yi (Emilia), Juan Sancho (Catone). Il Pomo D'oro, Riccardo Minasi
This suffers in comparison - although I have a soft spot for Sonia Prina, her coloratura is a bit forced (especially after hearing Franco Fagioli) and the rest of the cast is just OK; orchestra also no more than correct.
Vinci, Leonardo: La Partenope
Sonia Prina (Partenope), Maria Grazia Schiavo (Rosmira), Maria Ercolano (Arsace), Eufemia Tufano (Emilio), Stefano Ferrari (Armindo) & Charles do Santos (Ormonte). I Turchini, Antonio Florio
Cencic and Kermes shine in a beautiful serenata, a pasticcio with probably contributions from Porpora, Albinoni, Porta, and probably a bare minimum from Vivaldi.
Vivaldi etc: Andromeda Liberata
Simone Kermes (Soprano), Max Emanuel Cencic (Countertenor), Katerina Beranova (Soprano), Anna Bonitatibus (Contralto), Mark Tucker (Tenor). Venice Baroque Orchestra & La Stagione Armonica, Andrea Marcon
Natalie
I first thought Vince Yi was somewhere between unique and strange thinking maybe they could have stuck a soprano in here but as the character developed I really started to warm to this performance (of Yi). It was one (just one) of the aspects that led me on to a second and third cycle...
He wasn't new to me as I had time to get used to him in the Purcell/Sellars Indian Queen from the Liceu, which sadly has now disappeared from YT. Certainly a unique voice...
Natalie
Also an aspect of this that takes some getting used to is the length of the recitatives. Five or six minutes in part; at one point Catone says to Cesare Speak quickly, I'm busy and don't have a lot time.... That made me laugh. Though maybe it was because I was expecting it on the next time around but this also I am happy with.
Warner Brothers also borrowed some music from this overture for their animated "Loony Tunes" cartoons. As I told my sister, one goes straight from Bugs Bunny into the Lone Ranger!And, today:
I have to admit that the Overture never fails to make me smile. As most folks know (though I don't know about overseas), the center, lively part of the Overture was used as the theme music for the TV cowboy show "The Lone Ranger" when I was about 10 years old. It became so ingrained that even now I am unable to separate the two emotionally.
Vinci, Leonardo: Catone in Utica
Max Emanuel Cencic (Arbace), Franco Fagioli (Cesare), Valer Sabadus (Marzia), Martin Mitterutzner (Fulvio), Vince Yi (Emilia), Juan Sancho (Catone). Il Pomo D'oro, Riccardo Minasi
I just went to add this to my Amazon Wish List and it comes very dear. $51.60 - or $46.25 on PC. No wonder CD sales are off.
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