Search Results for: "opera"
Wed 26 Jul, 2017:
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Thu 13 Jul, 2017:
Schubert: Arias and Overtures
For Schubert and the German music theatre of his time, words were of utmost importance which precluded florid singing. Unfortunately for the composer,...
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Thu 06 Jul, 2017:
Schmidt: Symphony No 2 in E flat major; Strauss: Symphonic Interlude from Intermezzo ('Träumerei am Kamin')
Set down at the start of July 2015 in the Grosser Saal of Vienna's Musikverein just a few days before a memorable London performance at the Proms,...
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Fri 23 Jun, 2017:
Exiles – Bloch: Schelomo; From Jewish Life; Korngold: Cello Concerto in C major, Op 37; Die tote Stadt, Op 12 (Tanzlied des Pierrot); Prokofiev: Overture on Jewish Themes, Op 34; Alberstein: Sarah Sings a Lullaby to Little Isaac
New recordings of Korngold's Cello Concerto are always welcome. Adapted from his score for the 1946 film Deception (starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid...
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Tue 30 May, 2017:
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; The Three-Cornered Hat; La vida breve (Interlude and Dance); El amor brujo (Ritual Fire Dance)
This latest addition to Kazuki Yamada's highly desirable series of recordings for Pentatone at the helm of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande serves...
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Tue 02 May, 2017:
Nicolai: Die Heimkehr des Verbannten
Otto Nicolai’s reputation rests almost solely on his oft-recorded Die lustigen Weiber (The Merry Wives of Windsor). This belated release of the...
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Fri 21 Apr, 2017:
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Op 123
“I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear.” Thus spake Beethoven – with certainty. But the Missa...
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Fri 24 Mar, 2017:
Mayr: Telemaco
The goddess Calipso, spurned by Ulysses, determines to avenge herself on his son Telemaco who is shipwrecked on her island. She desires his love or...
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Fri 17 Feb, 2017:
Mitologia: Scenes and Arias from Handel Operas
DHM have assembled here a pleasingly varied collection of Handel arias. Track 4 is Semele's forceful – and, to her, fatal – aria 'No, I'll take no...
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Wed 15 Feb, 2017:
Leighton: Complete Organ Works
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) wrote with consummate skill for the organ. His thrillingly communicative 1970 Concerto for the instrument with string...
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Mon 06 Feb, 2017:
Mozart: Opera and Concert Arias
This anthology of Mozart arias is ably sung by the young German soprano Anett Fritsch. She sings arias from all three soprano roles in Le Nozze di...
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Thu 26 Jan, 2017:
Vaughan Williams: Piano Music – The Lake in the Mountains; Introduction and Fugue for two pianos; ‘Ach bleib’ bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ’ (BWV 649); Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Hymn Tune Prelude on ‘Song 13’; Fantasia on Greensleeves; A Little Piano Book; Suite of Six Short Pieces
Of interest here for completists is a first, finely delineated recording of the Introduction and Fugue for two pianos by Mark Bebbington and Rebecca...
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Mon 23 Jan, 2017:
Schreker: Orchestral music from the operas
Born in Monaco and educated in Vienna, Franz Schreker (1878-1934) was a major player in the opera houses of Europe, before persecution by the Nazis...
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Tue 17 Jan, 2017:
Rossini: Opera Arias
A joyously sung love song from Demetrio e Polibio (Rossini’s first opera) opens this collection of Rossini ‘trouser roles’ sung by the...
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