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message for Pepe.... in two hours time, I'll be heading out to the Courtyard, to watch Joyce Didonato in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda... :-))

Jared wrote:
message for Pepe.... in two hours time, I'll be heading out to the Courtyard, to watch Joyce Didonato in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda... :-))

Whether you like it or not Jared say nothing against our Joyce for as you know she is one of Pepe's favourites LOL!!!
I hope that you enjoy it Jared.

^^^ oooh, I know!

but I couldn't say anything bad about her... I saw the live rehearsals a few weeks ago, where she sang an aria before being interviewed by Susan Graham, and she sounded in great form...

Jared wrote:^^^ oooh, I know!

but I couldn't say anything bad about her... I saw the live rehearsals a few weeks ago, where she sang an aria before being interviewed by Susan Graham, and she sounded in great form...

Get the boots on Jared and off you go. :)

markof wrote:

Delighted with this record (quboz 24/48 download)
Purchased based on recommendation in this forum - many thanks.

Good man Mark. I am not familiar with that cycle but Schubert's music is wonderful, his Ninth is one of my favourite orchestral works, I first heard it performed on RTE by our own splendid NSO and was smitten, I hope that you enjoy that set.

George Lloyd: Symph No.9
BBC Phil/ George Lloyd

a rather compact, jaunty and very melodious work, a little reminiscent of Malcolm Arnold.

I attended the following all Strauss programme at Royal Festival Hall, part of the Rest is Noise festival:-

Also sprach Zarathustra
Four Early Songs
Notturno
Dance of the Seven Veils & Final Scene from Salome

Karita Mattila/Thomas Hampson/Vladimir Jurowski
London Philharmonic Orchestra

I do like Strauss. I sometimes seem to forget this and ignore him on my shelves (and random piles of CDs!). The concert was very good. I was in a box high up so the singers didnt carry all that well to my position. The orchestra, and organ, I could hear just fine though. I'm not sure what the LPOs current standing is internationally but reading the literature provided they seem a progressive outfit who are keen to educate and inform. Jurowski himself introduced a couple of pieces in a witty and informative style during stage rearrangements. I like this approach a lot especially when the evening is programmed for a single purpose.

Liszt - Piano Concerto No.1 (Lazar Berman/Carlo Maria Giulini, Wiener Symphoniker, Deutsche Grammophon)