Reply With QuoteFor today's walk, I decided on an opera I hadn't listened to in at least a year. Not my favorite Verdi, it proved to be a good companion for today's 10 miles:
Kiri and Flicka being wonderful is sort of a given, what always surprises me in this is David Rendall. He is good.
For today's walk, I decided on an opera I hadn't listened to in at least a year. Not my favorite Verdi, it proved to be a good companion for today's 10 miles:
Eötvös: Love and Other Demons
Recorded live at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2008
Allison Bell (Sierva Maria), Nathan Gunn (Father Cayetano Delaura), Mats Almgren (Don Toribio, the bishop), Felicity Palmer (Josefa Miranda) & Jean Rigby (Martina Laborde)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
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For today's walk, I decided on an opera I hadn't listened to in at least a year. Not my favorite Verdi, it proved to be a good companion for today's 10 miles:
I'm pleased with myself if I do three! Kudos to you sir!
"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
Yes, it's a bit of an obsession, I guess. Keeping my weight and blood pressure under control are my incentives.
A factor also, I suppose, both of too much time on my hands and still hearing my mother's voice telling me when I was a kid to go outside and get some fresh air (or, at least as fresh as the air might be here in Washington...)
Sometime I consider sitting down for a moment on my way from the bedroom to the kitchen. 10 miles to me sounds truly Olympian.
I'm pleased with myself if I do three! Kudos to you sir!
Rossini: Guglielmo Tell
Andrew Foster-Williams (Tell), Alessandra Volpe (Hedwige), Judith Howarth (Mathilde), Michael Spyres (Arnold), Tara Stafford (Jemmy), Giulio Pelligra (Rodolphe), Artavazd Sargsyan (Ruodi), Nahuel Di Pierro (Walther Fürst/Melchthal), Raffaele Facciolà (Gesler), Marco Filippo Romano (Leuthold)
Virtuosi Brunensis & Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań, Antonino Fogliani
2013
Recorded live Trinkhalle, Bad Wildbad
A little obscure Gluck this morning - I prefer La Danza over La Corona, btw:
Then, for this afternoon's walk, a reference recording:
This recording is really good. I started with this opera on DVD, then bought the Freni/Pavarotti set, followed by the Tagliavini/Tassinari set. But the opera was just not working for me on CD, perhaps because of the dated sound. So finally I grabbed the Alagna/Gheorghiu set and it is wonderful:
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Lucia Popp
With the libretto up on my PC via Kindle Cloud Reader
"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
and of course there's Edita
A Christmas gift (we open the day before) and I am enjoying it immensely:
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"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
I love how related the timbres of Lucia and Edita are, there's a palpable mother-daughter relation, and yet Edita is piercing, commanding and nasty and Lucia is solar, crystalline and heroic.
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