What are you listening two?

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Motivated by DaveF, very impressed with this set so far. Ben van Oosten is such a legend!

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Strauss - Salome - von Karajan....


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What wonderful music this is; full of passion and intensity! I thoroughly enjoyed this performance which for me had the requisite passion and intensity and then some! I am not familiar with Strauss’ operatic works to any great extent but I certainly enjoyed this far more that I did Elektra.
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well, it arrived, I'm on my 2nd listen and yes, it's very beautiful!
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Jared wrote:Image

well, it arrived, I'm on my 2nd listen and yes, it's very beautiful!

Delighted but not surprised that you liked it!
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As a complete contrast to the Strauss earlier, some Vivaldi Oboe Concerti....


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fergus wrote:
Jared wrote:Image

well, it arrived, I'm on my 2nd listen and yes, it's very beautiful!

Delighted but not surprised that you liked it!
Hmm, it seems like I need to check that one out one of these days.......
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Peter wrote:
fergus wrote:
Jared wrote:Image

well, it arrived, I'm on my 2nd listen and yes, it's very beautiful!

Delighted but not surprised that you liked it!
Hmm, it seems like I need to check that one out one of these days.......
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fergus wrote:Strauss - Salome - von Karajan....


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What wonderful music this is; full of passion and intensity! I thoroughly enjoyed this performance which for me had the requisite passion and intensity and then some! I am not familiar with Strauss’ operatic works to any great extent but I certainly enjoyed this far more that I did Elektra.
Salomé is far easier on the ear than Elektra, Fergus. Elektra is so violent, musically violent that is.
And you chose one of the finest Salomés ever recorded. Did you know that it was recorded by DECCA for EMI? That is, they used DECCA engineers and equipment but the recording was expressly made for EMI.
I was in Salzburg in the summer of 1977 when Karajan was performing Salomé with Hildegard Behrens, but unfortunately -tragically!- didn´t have tickets. In the black market they were asking $5,000.00 that is, THOUSAND dollars for 1 ticket -sigh-
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Jose Echenique wrote:Salomé is far easier on the ear than Elektra, Fergus. Elektra is so violent, musically violent that is.
yes, Elektra is the musical version of doing 12 rounds with one of the Klitschko brothers...
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Jared wrote:
Jose Echenique wrote:Salomé is far easier on the ear than Elektra, Fergus. Elektra is so violent, musically violent that is.
yes, Elektra is the musical version of doing 12 rounds with one of the Klitschko brothers...
It takes a conductor like Claudio Abbado to make Elektra frightening and beautiful at the same time. He never recorded the opera commercially, but there is a DVD of a performance with him and Eva Marton at the Vienna State Opera, where Abbado is actually booooooed!!!! Not because of his superb conducting of course, but because he just announced his resignation to the Vienna State Opera.
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