It is beautiful music, I must listen to it again in the morning.fergus wrote:Next up, the inevitable (I suppose) Miserere by Allegri....
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"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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As a friend (RIP) used to say, "What obscure composer are you listening to now?"
Benjamin Lees Concerto For String Quartet and Orchestra Szell Cleveland Orchestra live performance 1968
Benjamin Lees Concerto for Orchestra Steinberg Pittsburgh Symphony live performance date unknown
Benjamin Lees Concerto For String Quartet and Orchestra Szell Cleveland Orchestra live performance 1968
Benjamin Lees Concerto for Orchestra Steinberg Pittsburgh Symphony live performance date unknown
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It´s been a while since I heard Kubelik´s Parsifal, so I played it this afternoon. Kubelik was a wonderful Wagner conductor, and it´s a great pity that he only left 3 recordings: Meistersinger, Lohengrin and Parsifal. The Meistersinger is particularly outstanding, wonderfully conducted and sung. The Parsifal is also beautifully conducted, if only missing some of Karajan´s magic touch in his superb DG recording.
This was recorded at about the same time as the Karajan, but it was not meant to be published commercially, just broadcasted by the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Fortunately in 2003 it finally made it to cd, and we can only be grateful that it´s available to us.
His cast shares the same Gurnemanz as Karajan´s, the towering, incomparable Kurt Moll, whose organ-like sonorities are a wonder. The Parsifal is the veteran James King, well past his prime by 1980 (he recorded the role 10 years before for Pierre Boulez). The voice was huge and it´s evident that he knows the role well, but now he is too mature sounding, especially in act 1. Yvonne Minton, a mezzo I don´t especially like, is actually good as Kundry, the role is really sung and in tune. Bernd Weikl as Amfortas and Matti Salminen as Titurel are both excellent. Kubelik also has the luxury of having no less than Lucia Popp as a flower maiden.
But it is Kubelik himself who makes this recording worth having. As usual, and thank God for it, he is never an interventionist, so he avoids Boulez´ crazy fast tempi on one hand, and Knappertsbusch´s extremely slow tempi (though he, and only he, could handle them) on the other. And as usual he has the complete view of the work. There is air and light in the preludes, drama in act 2, and honesty in the sublime Good Friday music. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra as usual, play their hearts for him.
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Fergus, that's a wonderful collection of music you've been listening to over the past day or so.... I love it!
meanwhile, chez Butcher:
Chopin: 17 Songs (op.74)
Szmytka/ Martineau
beautifully delicate, with an essence of Polish folk music... shame they are not better known, really.
meanwhile, chez Butcher:
Chopin: 17 Songs (op.74)
Szmytka/ Martineau
beautifully delicate, with an essence of Polish folk music... shame they are not better known, really.
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Jose Echenique wrote:
That is one that I may consider Pepe.
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Jared wrote:Fergus, that's a wonderful collection of music you've been listening to over the past day or so.... I love it!
I thought that that you might appreciate it Jared. Those discs contain music for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday and being somewhat obsessive/compulsive about these details there is inevitably some duplication in my posting but this morning I listened to....
de Brito: Lesson 1 for Good Friday from....
Victoria: Responsories for Good Friday from....
and Zelenka: Lamentations I & II for Good Friday from....
....all of which has set me up nicely for a long day's listening as I am home alone with the house to myself.
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Music now from the "colourful" composer Gesualdo; Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday. This is also lovely music....
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A big nod in Simon's direction with the Chorales for Passiontide BWV618-624 from the Orgelbuchlein....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 Part 1
Ian Bostridge (Tenor), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Contralto (Female alto)), Mona Julsrud (Soprano),
Harry van der Kamp (Bass), Maria Cristina Kiehr (Soprano), Peter Kooy (Bass),
Nico Van der Meel (Tenor), Claudia Schubert (Contralto (Female alto)), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Bass),
Toby Spence (Tenor)
Boys’ Choir of St Bavo’s Cathedral, Haarlem & Netherlands Chamber Choir
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen - conducting.
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Fergus, you are in danger of turning into a real "Holy Joe", enjoy the music.
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler