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Dragonfly · August 22, 2009

Today three tarantellas:

Beethoven (sonata op. 31-3 last movement)

Chopin

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Liszt (Années de Pèlerinage 2ième Année)

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Dragonfly · August 23, 2009

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Dragonfly · August 25, 2009

Dragonfly · September 9, 2009

Dragonfly · September 9, 2009

They don't write ballades like this anymore:

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Dragonfly · October 5, 2009

Mendelssohn, Variations sérieuses, played by Sviatoslav Richter:

Dragonfly · October 11, 2009

Three Romances for oboe and piano by Schumann, played by Albrecht Mayer & Hélène Grimaud:

Dragonfly · October 13, 2009

Scriabin, Vers la flamme, played by Horowitz:

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Dragonfly · October 16, 2009

Bach, Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, Prelude & Fugue 6 d min., played by Jill Crossland:

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Dragonfly · October 24, 2009

And here is the greatest singer of them all: Florence Foster Jenkins with a really amazing interpretation of the aria "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" from Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte!

Guyau · October 24, 2009

Very funny, Peter.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Been meaning to share this, most seriously.

Ich leb’ allein in meinem Himmel,

In meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied.

Jessye Norman: A Portrait

We watched this DVD a couple of weeks ago, through Netflix. Swept away.

Samples:

Mozart

Erlkönig

Schubert

Strauss

I got to see Jessye Norman in two recitals in Orchestra Hall in Chicago, over the years,

once with Jer and Rosetta, once with Walter. She lifted us so high.

Dragonfly · December 10, 2009

Feux follets (the fifth from the Études d'exécution transcendente) by Franz Liszt, played by Nicolaï Luganski:

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Dragonfly · January 2, 2010

Mendelssohn: Elias. An aria sung by Thomas Quasthoff as Elias. Perhaps interesting for this forum that in the beginning you can hear a fragment of the chorus "Baal! Gib uns Antwort!" ("Baal! Answer us!"). But Baal remains silent... Unfortunately I couldn't find that chorus and recitative on the Internet, except for those few bars.

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9thdoctor · January 3, 2010

I saw Quasthoff do Winterreise in Vienna a couple years ago, I was lucky as hell to get the ticket (10th row in the Konzerthaus, totally sold out). He’s unbelievable. For those not familiar, he was a Thalidomide baby, he’s about 3 feet tall and his arms are stumps. To get to the level of renown he’s earned, wow. This number’s good for a laugh, DF, its payback time for the Flo Fo:

Dragonfly · January 3, 2010

I saw Quasthoff do Winterreise in Vienna a couple years ago, I was lucky as hell to get the ticket (10th row in the Konzerthaus, totally sold out).

In fact I'd posted the first song (Gute Nacht) from the Winterreise sung by Quasthoff here. Unfortunately the video has been removed in the meantime. I found another version, but that has only the second half of the song, and this one, which has only static pictures:

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Dragonfly · January 3, 2010

Dvořák: Rusalka, Song to the Moon, sung by Renée Fleming.

9thdoctor · January 3, 2010

Dvořák: Rusalka, Song to the Moon, sung by Renée Fleming.

I wonder if that was from the Richard Tucker gala in the early ‘90’s, it was the first time I heard of Renee Fleming. Looks like it, I know this was the piece she did. I prefer Lucia Popp, but both are great. When Popp ventures above the staff, she evokes the emotions of a 17 year old having her first orgasm.

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Great dress too.

Selene · January 3, 2010

Dvořák: Rusalka, Song to the Moon, sung by Renée Fleming.
I wonder if that was from the Richard Tucker gala in the early '90's, it was the first time I heard of Renee Fleming. Looks like it, I know this was the piece she did. I prefer Lucia Popp, but both are great. When Popp ventures above the staff, she evokes the emotions of a 17 year old having her first orgasm.
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Great dress too.

9th:

Great dress. Out of curiosity, what did you mean by "When Popp ventures above the staff..."?

Adam

9thdoctor · January 3, 2010

Out of curiosity, what did you mean by "When Popp ventures above the staff..."?

When she sings high notes. Her voice takes on a particularly ecstatic quality in the upper register. For her, above the staff would be G on up (treble clef). The highest note in this piece is a B natural I believe (might be a B-flat), it comes at the end. Shivers me timbers when she does that.

BTW heres the translation, I cut and pasted it from another site:

Silver moon upon the deep dark sky,

Through the vast night pierce your rays.

This sleeping world you wander by,

Smiling on men's homes and ways.

Oh moon ere past you glide, tell me,

Tell me, oh where does my loved one bide?

Oh moon ere past you glide, tell me

Tell me, oh where does my loved one bide?

Tell him, oh tell him, my silver moon,

Mine are the arms that shall hold him,

That between waking and sleeping he may

Think of the love that enfolds him,

May between waking and sleeping

Think of the love that enfolds him.

Light his path far away, light his path,

Tell him, oh tell him who does for him stay!

Human soul, should it dream of me, Let my memory wakened be.

Moon, moon, oh do not wane, do not wane,

Moon, oh moon, do not wane....

This next one is the third of Richard Strausss Four Last Songs. Funny story, when I visited Pere Lachaise in Paris, someone in the distance (I never saw them) was singing this piece, a capella, and competently (she was probably a professional). Weird experience, no mescaline involved.

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Now that I am wearied of the day, I will let the friendly, starry night greet all my ardent desires like a sleepy child. Hands, stop all your work. Brow, forget all your thinking. All my senses now yearn to sink into slumber. And my unfettered soul wishes to soar up freely into night's magic sphere to live there deeply and thousandfold.

The words are by Hesse, BTW.

Edited January 3, 2010 by Ninth Doctor

Selene · January 3, 2010

9th:

Thanks. I thought that was what you meant, but just wanted to be sure.

Yes she is remarkable in that way.

Adam

Dragonfly · January 4, 2010

Chopin, Etude op. 25 No 6 (étude in thirds), played by Lhévinne, Richter and Cziffra:

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A more recent version by Valentina Lisitsa. Unfortunatly the first bars and the last chord are missing!

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jeffrey smith · January 5, 2010

Time to go big here.

"Imagine the universe beginning to ring and resound--no longer human voices, but suns and planets revolving" is what the composer wrote about this music.

The conductor here is Simon Rattle, the orchestra is the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

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Guyau · January 6, 2010

Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben

Zaïde – Mozart

Beverly Sills

Richard Strauss

Beverly Sills

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Guyau · January 9, 2010

of Barber’s Violin Concerto

Gil Shaham

Dragonfly · May 14, 2010

Vladimir Horowitz plays Chopin's first Ballade in g min. op. 23. Never mind the poor sound quality and the fact that not all the notes are there...

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