Reply With QuoteLove Berganza here, but want the Sills set.
Natalie
Love Berganza here, but want the Sills set.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
In the car:
On my MP3 player:
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
A shorter walk today was in order to compensate for the week off due to travel and weather. So, a similarly shorter opera was required. As I thought about it, I realized I hadn't listened to Puccini in quite a while (with due apologies to Povero Buoso):
Last edited by Hoffmann; April 8th, 2016 at 01:24 AM.
Natalie
This morning's listen:
This CD set is nicely done. The sound is excellent (save a bit of an echo in some of the choruses) and the singing of a high standard. The opera itself is somewhat less melodic than what I recall from the Bard performance in 2013, but has a driving dramatic arc that makes the music great listening. I'm interested, now, to hear Leon Botstein's version available on iTunes for comparison.
No walk today. Very cold (although it didn't stick, it snowed this morning for about an hour!) and very windy.
No comments? I have this CD and find it incredibly beautiful. One of the best operas out there.Originally Posted by Soave_Fanciulla
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
I remain weary of trying this without the libretto. Do you know of any source for the libretto?This morning's listen:
This CD set is nicely done. The sound is excellent (save a bit of an echo in some of the choruses) and the singing of a high standard. The opera itself is somewhat less melodic than what I recall from the Bard performance in 2013, but has a driving dramatic arc that makes the music great listening. I'm interested, now, to hear Leon Botstein's version available on iTunes for comparison.
No walk today. Very cold (although it didn't stick, it snowed this morning for about an hour!) and very windy.
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
I looked but came up empty-handed. It must be really obscure if the internet doesn't know.
I did some quick hunting and came up with the Russian libretto but i think when it comes to the English it's out of luck. http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/ist987/libreta/orestea.html Could try the old google translate attempt but that would be mighty tedious.
"Non sono in vena" Rodolfo summing up P.B's feelings on his dissertation.
Thanks but I don't speak Russian!
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
Looks more like a software scramble to me!
I wonder whether the libretto was ever translated into English. The opera has had very few performances in its lifetime - which is unfortunate. In the performance I saw at Bard College, the principals were mostly Russian. The Melodiya recording is Russian from the Soviet era (1965), so it's possible no one has taken the time to do a translation.
This has been lingering in my Unlistened to Pile for some time and I had totally forgotten about it:
This CD set, which is the four act version, has a terrific male cast, including Boris Christoff's Philip II and Tito Gobbi's Rodrigo, which is why I bought it. I don't know the female singers except by name, although they, too, are quite good. Set comments note that this was the first studio recording of the four-act version of Don Carlo, completed in 1954. Although noted as restored, the sound is good, but not as good as some other remastered sets from the same time period (like the Callas box set). Christoff's "Ella giammai m’amò" is amazing.
Hot off the CD ripper, purchased only an hour ago at Dearborn Music. Never heard this opera before:
EDIT: I must say, I am not a fan of Massenet. Musically he does nothing for me, and I had his Cendrillon with von Stade and couldn't stand it, so got rid of it. But this is a keeper for the wonderful voice of Beverly Sills which unfortunately was very under-represented in recordings.
"Music is enought for a whole lifetime--but a lifetime is not enough for music." --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
snap! I was listening to this too
twice
as is the norm for this recording
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sooooo beautiful, if I was any less butch of a guy, it would bring tears to my eyes.
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