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Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:39 pm
by Jose Echenique
fergus wrote:Recent listening: Gardiner's version of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo....


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....a wonderful version and that opeing sequence is to die for I think.
Did you know that this recording of Orfeo caught Anthony Rolfe Johnson in the middle of a vocal crisis?
He doesn´t sound that bad, but maybe he is more reserved than usual. By the time the recording was over he thought his career was over too. Fortunately after a few months of rest his voice came back and Solti offered him the role of Cassio in Pavarotti´s Chicago Symphony recording of Otello.
I always think of him as my all time favorite Handel tenor, what a pity that his last years were so terrible.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:00 am
by fergus
Jose Echenique wrote:
fergus wrote:
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Did you know that this recording of Orfeo caught Anthony Rolfe Johnson in the middle of a vocal crisis?
He doesn´t sound that bad, but maybe he is more reserved than usual. By the time the recording was over he thought his career was over too. Fortunately after a few months of rest his voice came back and Solti offered him the role of Cassio in Pavarotti´s Chicago Symphony recording of Otello.
I always think of him as my all time favorite Handel tenor, what a pity that his last years were so terrible.
I did not know that Pepe but he sounded fine to me on the recording. All of the vocals are one of the big strengths of this version for me.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:02 am
by fergus
Bax; Symphony No. 3....


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I had read recently that this was the Composer's favourite so I had to listen to it again. I can see why he particularly liked it as it evokes a great sense of the mystical and sense of Folklore in his music.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:01 pm
by fergus
The wonderfully lyrical, almost operatic music of Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Concertos....


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Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:37 am
by fergus
I have been dipping into the viol music of Lawes recently....


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Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:31 pm
by fergus
Vivaldi: La Stravaganza under Marriner....


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Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:43 am
by Jose Echenique
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One of the many priceless treasures that La Cappella de´Turchini recorded in the golden days of OPUS111.
Gaetano Latilla (1711-1788) was a very popular composer in the mid XVIII Century. Even the young Mozart got to know him during one of his travels to Italy. We have a great conversation with him thanks to Dr. Charles Burney who interviewed him for his book Music in France and Italy.
Though he composed many operas, most of them very popular in their time, Antonio Florio chose an absolutely delightful gem of an opera buffa to introduce him to the discography. Of course it helps to have a dashing, vocally flawless Roberta Invernizzi in the main role, but all the members of la Cappella give throughly idiomatic and admirable performances.
Oh, how we miss producer Yolanta Skura who dared to record all these unknown composers and works.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:52 am
by fergus
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That seems like a very interesting CD Pepe and it seems to get very favourable reviews as you have already indicated.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:53 am
by fergus
Ockeghem: Missa L'homme armé....


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....beautiful!!

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 11:03 pm
by fergus
This one is for Seán....a selection of Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos....


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