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We all seem to be listening to Mozart recently and during the week I played through this vinyl set....

fergus wrote:We all seem to be listening to Mozart recently and during the week I played through this vinyl set....

That recording was considered for decades the prime recommendation. The best things in my humble opinion are the super elegant Ferrando of Alfredo Kraus and the vital Guglielmo of Giuseppe Taddei. If you have to have Frau Schwarzkopf I much prefer her earlier, mono recording with Karajan where she is more natural and less mannered. Ludwig is of course very good, but misses the latin warmth and youthful voice of Teresa Berganza in the Solti recording. Böhm conducts in the traditional mid- 20th Century Viennese manner, now almost extinct of course. Things change.

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Aleg

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Very much so. María Bayo was still in excellent voice then (she had vocal problems soon after that recording, and sadly never recovered). "Zarzuela" in the XVIII Century didn´t mean popular musical theatre like in the late XIX Century and early XX Century, zarzuela just meant a play with musical numbers and spoken dialogue, rather like The Magic Flute and Fidelio (Singspiel in the German speaking World) or Opéra-Comique in France. The arias in this recital are in Italianate style, just sung in Spanish. They are good too!

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Aleg wrote:

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Very much so. María Bayo was still in excellent voice then (she had vocal problems soon after that recording, and sadly never recovered). "Zarzuela" in the XVIII Century didn´t mean popular musical theatre like in the late XIX Century and early XX Century, zarzuela just meant a play with musical numbers and spoken dialogue, rather like The Magic Flute and Fidelio (Singspiel in the German speaking World) or Opéra-Comique in France. The arias in this recital are in Italianate style, just sung in Spanish. They are good too!

Didn't know about the voice.
What a loss, it's a great voice for this music style.

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María Bayo is 55 this year, but the Zarzuela recital dates from 2003, when she was indeed in her prime. One year later she recorded for DHM Glück´s L´ Innocenza Giustificata and her voice was almost unrecognizable, and nothing she made after that recaptured the freshness and poise of the Zarzuela recital.
To hear -and see, because she was really pretty- how good she was I recommend Cavalli´s La Calisto conducted by René Jacobs, it´s available both on cd and dvd, a most charming soprano in her best years.

Some of the most exquisite oboe playing ever captured by a microphone.

Jose Echenique wrote:

Some of the most exquisite oboe playing ever captured by a microphone.

Yes, my collection is sadly lacking in Telemann's music, perhaps this is a good place to start.

Seán wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:

Some of the most exquisite oboe playing ever captured by a microphone.

Yes, my collection is sadly lacking in Telemann's music, perhaps this is a good place to start.

It´s one of the finest Telemann records ever Seán, Marcel Ponseele is oboist #1, period or not.

Jose Echenique wrote:

Some of the most exquisite oboe playing ever captured by a microphone.

I am very fond of both Telemann and the oboe so I may check that one out Pepe....