Reply With QuoteoopsOriginally Posted by Clayton
just noticed my typing
and that's three minutes before sherry time
Clayton planning...
what actually came up next
(povero's thread to blame)
Handel: Semele
Rosemary Joshua (Semele), Hilary Summers (Juno/Ino), Richard Croft (Jupiter), Stephen Wallace (Athamas), Brindley Sherratt (Cadmus/Somnus) & Gail Pearson (Iris), David Croft (Apollo)
Early Opera Company (on period instruments), Christian Curnyn
2007
oops
just noticed my typing
and that's three minutes before sherry time
Natalie
Another selection out of my recently purchased box o' operas:
Nicely sung, but will require another listen before being able to gain a stronger sense of its merits.
A bit colder today so it was time for woolly hat which excludes even more outside noise. Came home a longer way round in order to listen to all of this.
Last edited by Ann Lander (sospiro); December 10th, 2015 at 06:53 AM.
"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
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
So after re-listening to another Butterfly today I have now come to the conclusion that it is pretty in places but nowhere near the top for me when it comes to Puccini. I can think of 8 Puccini Operas I like better than it which is not to say that Butterfly is bad just not wonderful. It's still very good and I like it better than Manon Lescaut but I doubt its going on my Ipod anytime soon.(Butterfly still annoys me as she successfully manages to be the fifth most interesting Character in her own Opera).
"Non sono in vena" Rodolfo summing up P.B's feelings on his dissertation.
A bit colder today so it was time for woolly hat which excludes even more outside noise. Came home a longer way round in order to listen to all of this.
Reading this, I realized you are on to something important so, since I realized I also own this:
I was planning to listen to some more Rossini today
but as usual, distractions from other threads
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Don Giovanni), Sena Jurinac (Donna Anna), Ernst Haeflinger (Don Ottavio), Maria Stader (Donna Elvira), Karl Christian Kohn (Leporello), Walter Kreppel (Il Commendatore), Ivan Sardi (Masetto), Irmgard Seefried (Zerlina)
RIAS-Kammerchor Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Ferenc Fricsay
Recorded Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin Sep & Oct 1958
One of my star finds at the charity shop sometime last year I think; like new condition and what a fantastic production
A DG DG (chortle, chortle) that should be in all Mozart fans' tea cabinet.
Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
Edita Gruberova (Donna Lucrezia Borgia), Jose Bros (Gennaro), Franco Vassallo (Don alfonso), Silvia Tro Santafe (Maffio Orsini)
WDR Rundfunkorchester Koln
Andriy Yurkevych
Live performance recording 4 & 7 June 2010 Philharmonie Köln, WDR
Still my favourite recording of this not so popular number. All principles are wonderful.
After finishing up Les Contes d'Hoffmann, I headed out for my walk - today into downtown DC to take care of a couple of errands:
I decided to refresh my memory on this recording, which I hadn't listened to in a while. Some really impressive singing - Michael Spyres is terrific. That said, though, I'm not crazy about the overall sound of this CD set. To my ear, the singers are very forward, with a hint of echo and with the orchestra subdued.
Then, because I finished Otello, I started listening to this on the way home:
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
There's got to be more Dutchmen in Florestan's CD cabinet than in a small hamlet in Holland
meanwhile, dust is blown off another Rossini (imaginary dust of course, there's no dust in my tea cabinet)
Rossini: La donna del lago
Carmen Giannattasio (Elena), Kenneth Tarver (Uberto/Giacomo), Patricia Bardon (Malcolm), Gregory Kunde (Rodrigo di Dhu), Robert Gleadow (Douglas d'Angus), Francesca Sassu (Albina), Mark Wilde (Serano/Bertram)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus & Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maurizio Benini
You all know my feelings on the subject.
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