| 1. intone 0:49 |
| 2. open cry 4:25 |
| 3. honji 6:25 |
| 4. hi point 4:28 |
| 5. margarita 1:14 |
| 6. innersections 10:33 |
| 7. boya wa yoi koda 4:06 |
| 8. cinema-tech 6:24 |
| 9. adreneline dream 7:24 |
| 10. rooms 0:47 |
| 11. swirl 7:35 |
| 12. two brothers 2:08 |
| 13. ishme karaft 6:31 |
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Better off finding a better performance of these if you really want to be "blown away". My favorite "Beethoven" conductor would have to be Herbert von Karajan; and as for individual pianists my all time favorite is Maurizio Pollini, whose performances are exquisite, in both technique and expression! If you are a music lover you should really check his work out if you haven't already. My favorite Beethoven CD by him is "Die Spaten Klaviersonaten" (Beethoven) by Deutsche Grammophon in their "legendary recordings" series. It is a real gem! (the sound quality is excellent also)
And that is a very remarkable good point in this musical moment where the pianist technique is eclipsing and even annulling the personal approach in the most of pianists all over the world. Honesty, conviction, vision and commitment dress those interpretations loaded of expression and personality.
In the great tradition of the great Beethovenian keyboard giants of the past, Daniel explores and plays every little bar with that well felt intensity of someone who in Beethoven `s there is much more than simple music. In Beethoven the music is not a goal by itself; but a revelation superior to any philosophy; all his musical legacy possess values that are placed of the standards. There is not art without second intention and that is precisely what Barenboim has made with this fabulous cycle of Beethoven Sonatas.
If you really want to listen remarkable performances far beyond of the trivial conventionalisms, go for this record.
The album is packed with regal music and royal performances. Bach's 51st cantata is particularly captivating, what with its technical demands and relentless pace. But Battle and Marsalis are able to derive strength and energy from one another in the film - through the difficult preparation process of confronting its daunting technical minefield - to realize a stunning result.
Bravo! Their contribution to the recorded corpus here is sublime.
Now coming to the comparison made by a reviewer between Bellini and Verdi. Well, even if Bellini had lived to 80, it would not be his aim to write like Verdi. Bellini stood alone amongst the great opera composers of Italy. Even his contemporaries recognized it and called his music 'filosofico'. Bellini's aim was not to create dramas with music like Donizetti or Verdi, but rather music drama - a fact which Wagner recognized. Only that Bellini's aim was to realize it via the voice (think Norma), while Wagner did it with the orchestra. It is note-worthy that Wagner spared Bellini the usual bashing he gave to the Italians. Not only that - he admitted to Cosima that the love duet from Capuleti was the source of his inspiration for his own in Tristan. In his old age, he was proud to say that he learned from 'these pages' what Messrs Brahms etc had failed to learn. One should approach a Bellini opera as one does a Chopin Ballade or Wagner's Tristan, not Verdi. That is not to say that Verdi is inferior, but just different.
And regarding Bellini's orchestration, Wagner and Bizet were on separate occasions, were tasked to 'improve' the orchestration of Norma. Both eventually gave up the job as impossible and concluded that the orchestration written by Bellini was the most suitable. Comparing the orchestration between the early Il Pirata (with its almost Wagnerian finale!) with Norma, it dawns upon one that the decision to thin out the orchestra by Bellini was deliberate, in line with his purpose of using the voice as the primary tool to express the drama.
I have downoaded the text from Karadar Classical Music as well as a synopsis from Opera japonica. We learn that the Capuleti and Montecchi are local versions of the Guelph and Ghilbelline parties respectively. The Ghibelline Dante would have been allied with the Montecchi, Romeo's party. Capellio, Juliet's father, seeks to avenge the death of a son at the hands of Romeo. Romeo's part is sung by a mezzo-soprano, adding further to the absurdity of the EMI cover photo. Although Romeo and Juliet are already lovers, she refuses to elope with him out of loyalty to her father. These lovers really seem more interested in dying than in making love. Juliet does manage to declare that she breathes easier when she learns that Romeo has survived a fight. We know that Romeo has reached his appointed place when he sings, "Ecco la tomba." Janet Baker, as Romeo, shines in the slow, heart-broken singing that follows, interspersed with sympathetic passages by the chorus of Montecchi. There is no doubt that Bellini's operas allow top performers to sing as beautifully as they can. The instrumental accompaniment in this concluding scene is reduced to a bare minimum.
Sound: Analog stereo. The engineering is competent, I suppose, but as a matter of personal taste I do not care for the distant and echo-y soundscape. It sounds as though the opera were taking place at the far end of a Gothic cathedral.
Documentation: No printed libretto, although there is a reference to an on-line libretto available at the EMI Classics website, (which failed to download in five tries over two days) just in case I want to listen to this opera while I am working at my computer. The accompanying essay by James Harding is the most useless I have ever found in a CD case--and that is by no means an easily earned distinction. Harding is vitally interested in Bellini's lame love life but indifferent to such trifles as the plot of the opera he is supposed to be writing about.
Format: Disk 1, Act I, Scenes 1 and 2; 60:42. Disk 2, Act I, Scene 3; Act II, Scenes 1-3; 74:23.
Bellini premiered "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" at Teatro La Fenice in Venice exactly one month before his twenty-ninth birthday. It was a success but it was not without critics. In his essay, Harding writes, "It was unfair of Berlioz to denounce I Capuleti e i Montecchi as a travesty of Shakespeare." Berlioz clearly had a point, for where the Bard had twenty characters, the librettist "Romani made do with only five. You will look in vain," Harding gushes on, "for the Nurse and Friar Laurence" and, I must add, for Mercutio, Benvolio and Paris, too. In the opera, Paris and Tybalt become a single character, Tebaldo, to the great detriment of the plot.
"I Capuleti e i Montecchi" came about midway in Bellini's too short career. The really big hits on which his fame rests were yet to come. The music is competent but somehow lacking that indefinable ping that makes "La Sonnambula," "Norma" and "I Puritani" extraordinary.
Overall, the performance is good. Best by far in the cast is Janet Baker. She does not generate overt excitement but she offers an overwhelming sense of rightness when she essays any part in the narrow range that she made her own. This recording is a little late for the best of Sills but she is still very bright and amazingly agile. As always, I feel that her voice is just a little too cool and too thin, but that is purely a matter of personal taste. It is also late for Nicolai Gedda, who sounds unexpectedly baritonal as Tebaldo, a part that any other 19th Century composer would surely have written for a baritone. (I know, I know, Gounod's Tybalt is a tenor. I sang the role, myself, back in college days. But Gounod's Tybalt is markedly different in character from Bellini's Tebaldo-Paris.) Gedda is very good, but I am not at all sure that I would have recognized him if his name had not been on the cover.
"I Capuleti e i Montecchi" is not a great opera, but three famous and very fine singers offer intelligent and entertaining performances. That's worth five stars as far as I'm concerned.
FOR THE HISTORICALLY MINDED: William Shakespeare wrote his "Romeo and Juliet" in the 1590s, in the early days of his career. As was usual for him, he based his play on older materials. The first literary mention of the Montagus and the Capulets is in Dante's "Purgatorio," vi, lines 106-108. The Montagus lived in Verona and the Capulets in Cremona. They were used by Dante as examples of warring factions that had been exterminated. About 1530, Luigi da Porto mistakenly assumed that the Montagus and the Capulets had both resided in Verona and had feuded with one another. He worked up a tale that involved two young members of his warring clans, Giulietta and Romeo. In 1554, Matteo Bandello published a novella called "Romeo e Giulietta" which proved to be an international hit. A French version was adapted from Bandello by Pierre Boaistuau in 1559. This, in turn, was translated into English in 1562 by Arthur Brooke as a "tragical history" in verse form called "Romeus and Juliet," later to be pounced on by Will Shakespeare in search of a popular hit. The only major changes that Shakespeare made in Brooke's plot were to compress the time frame and to introduce Tybalt into the story at an earlier point in order to build him up as a worthy adversary for Romeo. And, oh, yes, he created an array of living characters such as had never been conceived before.
A number of commentators have taken note of the much simplified plot of "I Capuleti e i Montecchi." They have accounted for it by declaring that Shakespeare's version was not yet well-known in the world, so Romani must have based his work on an earlier version of the story, by which I presume they mean by Bandello or even by da Porto. I don't buy that explanation. By 1830, the cult of Bardolatry was firmly established. The standard German translations (that the Germans to this day hold to be superior to the English originals) were well along. Two generations earlier, the tourist industry of Stratford Upon Avon had been given a kick start by the great actor, Garrick (in a bicentennial celebration conceived by David Garrick, written by David Garrick, produced by David Garrick, directed by David Garrick and starring David Garrick--additional dialogue by W. Shakespeare.) Just seventeen years later, Verdi would write his "Macbeth" and make sketches for a "King Lear," that greatest of all operatic might-have-beens. One of the twenty or so books that Verdi kept close to himself until the day he died was an Italian translation of the works of Shakespeare.
No, I do not think that Romani dealt with any obscure 16th Century originals. I think that he exercised a hack's privilege to pillage a respectable source for his convenience. Berlioz was correct. In both the literal and the figurative senses of the word, this is a travesty.
record this opera earlier in their careers (1975) yet still
be glad they did. Though there are some audible signs of vo-
cal wear their artistry and commitment are never in doubt and
they offer memorable performances. Janet Baker is on the other
hand in splendid voice and sings superbly - she portrays a
somber Romeo and is supremely moving in the tomb scene.
Robert Lloyd and Raimund Herincx offer excellent support.
Very well recorded and beautifully conducted by Maestro
Patane - a very welcome release !
At the time Beverly was a known commodity in Bell Canto operas; however, Janet was mainly known as a song recitalist. Nevertheless, Janet Baker, in this opera, proves that she could sing opera with the best of them showing her great operatic credentials-she is up to every vocal challenge Bellini throws at her. She tackles the role with great artistry and beauty of tone. Her last scene STILL dissolves me to copious tears.
In this recording Beverly sings a little cautiously not throwing out high E's with abandon as before; however, her years of experience being a sublime singer of Bell Canto operas comes through. Her singing is gorgeous, sweet and touching to the highest degree, I truly believe that this recording was one of her best.
It truly is great to hear this recording again-ah the memories. Time has NOT diminished its appeal!
First, let's consider a sampling of the cuts on these CDs.
"O Zittre Nicht" is from Mozart's "Magic Flute" and it is a challenge to sopranos, with its series of staccato high notes. Sutherland essays this well. There are some nice trills; she hits the high notes well. The series of (treacherous) high notes toward the end is handled very nicely by Sutherland. In short, she scintillates, with a closing high note well hit.
From Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix," she sings "O luce di questi'anima." Her voice and technique are well suited for Donizetti (and Bellini). The cantabile is smoothly sung. The cabaletta is rollicking. Her coloratura technique is on target; the ornamentation is compelling. There are trills, runs, high notes and other ornamentation well done. The close is nice (although there may be a bit of a scoop on the final high note).
From "Beatrice di Tenda" (by Bellini), we hear ""Eccomi pronta. . .Deh, se un'urna." The cantabile is sung well. She hits notes clearly. The spirited cabaletta follows. Sutherland exhibits somewhat less ornamentation than usual, but trills are well done and, overall, the piece is nicely sung. The close features clean high notes.
"Home Sweet Home." This kind of illustrates Joan Sutherland's work nicely. I can hardly make out the words (and it is sung in English). But it is an interesting version. She sings the song straight, without overpowering the song with operatic technique (an occasional trill actually works out well).
Elsewhere, I have commented on her 1959 version of the "Mad Scene" from "Lucia di Lammermoor" (from her album "The Greatest Hits").
"Falling in Love with Love" is an interesting cut. This is a classic Rodgers and Hart song. Sutherland sings it pretty well, and one can pick up the words cleanly. However, one might compare this with Anna Moffo's version, which is more musical. Sutherland's version is a bit too operatic for what the song is about.
Finally, "Ah non giunge" from Bellini's "La Sonnambula," a great coloratura tune! This is taken at a sprightly pace. Sutherland exhibits good coloratura technique. There is nice ornamentation. She precisely nails high notes. In the repeat, the florid singing ramps up. This is a compelling version, with series of staccato high notes to close the work out.
Thus, this 2 CD set is a welcome entrée to the body of work of Dame Joan Sutherland. Sometimes (as with "Home Sweet Home") one has a hard time picking out the words. But with Sutherland, the skills and techniques create a compelling oeuvre that is well worth attending to.
I completely disagree with those who believe that Sutherland lost the gleam on her voice after 1961. It's true that she suffered for several years with intermittently poor diction and rhythmic lapses, but these were due to terrible medical problems and the results of serious operations that were required to restore her health. Later she recovered most of her vocal lustre and all of her enthusiasm for performing, and her diction steadily improved. Her fabulous technique remained intact until her retirement in 1990.
No singers sound as fresh at 50 as they do at 30. Just listen to how Callas sounded in her later years, when her voice had almost completely deteriorated, and her career was far shorter than Sutherland's. The fact is that Sutherland sang in public for forty years, without amplification and often in barnlike theatres, and yet she still sounded formidable when she retired. Just listen to her performance of the final aria from "Lucrezia Borgia" on YouTube. I heard her debut in that role, again in Vancouver, shortly before that Covent Garden performance, and can attest that she was still in fabulous voice at the age of 53 and her coloratura remained spectacular.
What "The Art of the Prima Donna" gives us is the memory of an unparalleled vocal phenomenon in her glorious youth, before her physical disabilities briefly interrupted her career. No singer since has created a recording that exhibits anything like the range, vocal beauty and versatility that Sutherland displayed on this historic recording--not Callas, nor Caballe, nor Sills, nor any of their recent imitators. The title of this recording was not an exaggeration. This is singing that truly revived "The Age of Bel Canto," to quote the title of another Sutherland recording. "The Art of the Prima Donna" and Sutherland's earlier recordings, if you can get them, constitute an invaluable legacy from an artist who truly restored the golden age of singing.
In her repertoire, JS was one of the greatest voices with an incredible technique and style that ever made recordings. This is a great CD - but some others which were issued on vinyl but to my knowledge not on CD help round out the Sutherland greatnes, viz., Command Performance, The Age of Bel Canto and the French Opera Album. She did a 2 disc set called "A Festival of Baroque Operas- There is an aria called "Barbaro, Barbaro" which is mind boggling for the speed and clarity of its coloratura. Even in 1977 at 51 yrs old her video performance of Lucrezia Borgia is amazing - it is one of the greatest performances she ever did- exciting, tender and again with that huge voice and flexibility. The last scene is amazing.
Flawless-NO Unique-WITHOUT A DOUBT!!!!!
One wonders if any other soprano in history ever sang so fast, so high and so loud while always preserving such a full, golden, round sound. Sutherland was a genuine vocal phenomenon, and even those who don't generally care for her singing surely must find their jaws on the floor repeatedly during this recital. Every selection has something treasurable. My personal favorites: "A soldier tir'd," "Bel raggio lusinghier," "Qui la voce," "Come per me sereno," the "Hamlet" Mad Scene, the Bell Song, and "O beau pays."
The remastering is superb, enabling us to hear Sutherland's voice in all its pristine glory. The engineers have even managed to mitigate the rumble of Underground trains (the Picadilly Line?) that were a perpetual problem in Kingsway Hall, although I was glad to hear that the loud yell in the distance one hears during the "Croce e delizia" section of "Ah, fors'e lui" is still there; by now it is an old friend, and I would miss it.
However, after digesting this CD for several weeks, I still have a mixed response to all these Stupendous vocalistics.
The beginning is the main sour note- Arne is tired, with often imprecise, behind the beat coloratura, quite unlike the rest of Sutherland's output, and Let the Bright Seraphim is unbelievably leaden- the orchestra in particular sounds awful, and clunky. I can't comment on ornamentation here because I didn't detect any. This is a poor man's Seraphim, only impressive if you never heard any other versions, and Sutherland's voice is wasted in this piece.
This CD really picks up with Casta Diva, a dazzling showcase for Sutherland's voice. I was very impressed with Sutherland's performance as Norma in this recording- what happened to her in later years, when her "acting" was limited to, as she herself described it, wearing a "generally pained expression" and singing without much color or feeling?
Pieces from I Puritani are great, then we get excellent Rossini, wonderful Jewel Song, and then sparkling Juliet and very effective, beautiful and dramatically involved Desdemona.
And then- another fly in the ointment, Marten Aller Arten. This is one of my favourite arias and I can be very unforgiving when it comes to its performance, plus I like Konstanze to be really angry and wired, which is sort of opposite of what Joan does. This is a pretty, chirpy Marten, and she works hard on her German- way too hard actually, she seems to be slowing down trying to pronounce it, and still "Ich verlache" and "mich" turn into "Ich ve-ayee" and "meeeh", plus she does not sound as secure on top as I would expect, with a metallic high C. She picks up at the very end, putting some feeling into the sound, then topples again... This is a hit and miss one.
Fortunately the rest of the CD is filled with sparklers more in Sutherland's vein. Violetta is really great, with a fantastic high E, Ophelia is nice, Lakme is vocally one of the best I have ever heard, the dull Meyerbeer aria is made interesting and shimmery- that fabulous trill is finally put to work after many tracks of underuse- and then it all ends with a most charming Gilda.
It's not the greatest vocal performance ever put on vinyl/plastic/megabites, but overall, a good, historical set to add to your collection of opera recitals and soprano specials.
2. Samson, oratorio, HWV 57 Let the bright Seraphim
Composed by George Frideric Handel
with Joan Sutherland
A sparkling and intense interpretation of this well known yet hardly ever magnificently performed piece. Lucid, beautiful and technically impeccable.
3. Norma, opera Sediziose voci... Casta diva... Ah! bello
Composed by Vincenzo Bellini
with Joan Sutherland
Surely her best studio-recording of this killer-aria. She is one of the few Normas who masters the recitativo without cracking or sounding strained, yet full of authority and intelligent drama. The Casta Diva itself is fluent, the make-or-break coloratura wonderfully executed. As for the cabaletta, not since young Callas in 1949 have I heard this piece sung so beautifully! Amazing high notes crown a cabaletta that broke more than one famous Norma before.
6. I Puritani, opera O rendetemi la speme... Qui la voce... Vien, diletto
Composed by Vincenzo Bellini
A Bellinian madscene at its finest. Once again only Callas in 1949 can be compared to this wonder of a recording. Callas too found darker colours and more intensity. (Dolore e passione as described in the score) Sutherland may lack these but she sings it with her own sense for drama which is uniquely sublime.
10. Otello, opera Mia madre aveva una povera ancella... Piangea cantando
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
with Joan Sutherland
An interesting and excellent choice. There are pictures of Joan Sutherland as Desdemona and what a pity that no complete recording of her performances survived. I find her Desdemona to be far more convincing than Tebaldi because she sounds more fragile and elegant, plus she has that silvery tone of innocence that I don't hear in Tebaldi's golden, sensual voice. Excellent in the floating lines, beautiful and tender in the cantabile.
16. Rigoletto, opera Gualtier Maldè... Caro nome
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
with Joan Sutherland
This can be compared to Maria Callas' live-performance of this piece and, being in excellent sound, might be preferred. (Callas was excellent in the studio as well, yet in 1955 she was less daring and defying) Stunningly intense in the cantabile and brilliant in the coloratura-passages. Far better than her famous performance with Pavarotti where she had lost the youthful, silvery sound that made her earlier Gilda so loveable.
I do not adore her as much in French opera and La Traviata or anything German but that doesn't mean that her singing was anything but amazing, just a personal preference. In short: Buy it and discover why Joan Sutherland is indeed La Stupenda!
I love medieval and renaissance music. They are the "roots" of the great classics centuries later. One does not cultivate a complete education of art by studying only such Masters as Van Gogh, Renoir, Picasso, Dali etc. So it is with fine music.
These CD's contain examples of Florentine musical composition from the 1300's and 1500's. The first CD, performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort, covers compositions from the 1300's, with many of the works of Francesco Landini, the most prolific Florentine composer of this period. The second covers music from the 1500's and is performed by John Beckett and the Musica Reservata. Here we can see the early development of both symphonic structure and opera.
Both discs are wonderful examples of different periods in the history of musical development, and performed by different conductors and artists. Therefore a comparison between the two is unfair and misplaced. David Munrow and the Early Music Consort are superb, as I have always found them to be, and John Beckett and the Musica Reservata are equally enjoyable.
If you appreciate early music you will find this recording to be a fantastic addition to your collection, and perhaps the definitive collection of early Italian music. If you are unfamiliar with early music or with Italian Renaissance music then these CD's would be a wonderful introduction.
But it is not until now that we have, for the first time, access to the complete piano compositions of Clara Schumann. I cannot imagine a more sensitive and nuanced performance of these works than that of Jozef De Beenhouwer, a Belgian pianist who has made a specialty of the music of both Robert and Clara Schumann. He received the Robert Schumann Prize from the City of Zwickau, Schumann's birthplace, and has completed an unfinished second concerto of Clara Schumann, not included in this set.
Clara Schumann was prepared by her father not only to be a virtuoso pianist. He also envisaged her as the first great female composer. He opposed her marriage to Robert in part because he reckoned that her probable role as a wife and mother - as well as Robert's ambitions as a comoposer - would bury her talent. Clara's first group of compositions were published when she was only 11 years of age. A surviving piano concerto, Op. 7, was performed to critical acclaim when Clara was 16.
Clara Schumann continued as a famous pianist and musical presence throughout her life (40 years after her husband's tragic death). However, although Robert recognized her compositional talent and encouraged her, the birth of eight children, and her role as a wife and pianist early curtailed her compositional activity (old Wieck was right in this respect). Her compositions have widely been regarded as worth little attention in comparison to those of her husband.
But this collection lets us make up our own minds about Clara's compositions. Most are from her early years, with a few from her later life. Except for her Concerto, many of the early works are in light genres, e.g. Polonaises (Op. 1), Romances, Impromptus, etc, but I found boldness, confidence, and originality in works from her earliest years. The Scherzi, Op. 10 and 14, are powerful and technically demanding. Some of the most remarkable pieces are preludes and fuges based on themes of J.S.Bach, and themes by Robert, written in the year, 1845, which gained favorable reviews for their skill and substance.
In summary, my wife and I both find this four-CD set both highly rewarding music beyond any novelty value associated the fame of the Schumann connection. In fact, I don't hesitate to make my own assessment that had Clara had the same opportunities as Robert, she may well have equalled him as a composer and fulfilled father Friedrich's dream.
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Tracks:
- Sonata No.1 In F Minor, Op.2 No.1: Allegro
- Sonata No.1 In F Minor, Op.2 No.1: Adagio
- Sonata No.1 In F Minor, Op.2 No.1: Menuetto: Allegretto
- Sonata No.1 In F Minor, Op.2 No.1: Prestissimo
- Sonata No.2 In A Major, Op.2 No.2: Allegro vivace
- Sonata No.2 In A Major, Op.2 No.2: Largo appassionato
- Sonata No.2 In A Major, Op.2 No.2: Scherzo: Allegretto
- Sonata No.2 In A Major, Op.2 No.2: Rondo: Grazioso
- Sonata No.3 In C Major, Op.2 No.3: Allegro con brio
- Sonata No.3 In C Major, Op.2 No.3: Adagio
- Sonata No.3 In C Major, Op.2 No.3: Scherzo: Allegro
- Sonata No.3 In C Major, Op.2 No.3: Allegro assai
Tracks:
- Sonata No.5 In C Minor, Op.10 No.1: Allegro molto e con brio
- Sonata No.5 In C Minor, Op.10 No.1: Adagio molto
- Sonata No.5 In C Minor, Op.10 No.1: Finale: Prestissimo
- Sonata No.6 In F Major, Op.10 No.2: Allegro
- Sonata No.6 In F Major, Op.10 No.2: Allegretto
- Sonata No.6 In F Major, Op.10 No.2: Presto
- Sonata No.7 In D Major, Op.10 No.3: Presto
- Sonata No.7 In D Major, Op.10 No.3: Largo e mesto
- Sonata No.7 In D Major, Op.10 No.3: Menuetto: Allegro
- Sonata No.7 In D Major, Op.10 No.3: Rondo: Allegro
- Sonata No.22 In F Major, Op.54: In tempo di Menuetto
- Sonata No.22 In F Major, Op.54: Allegretto - Piu allegro
Tracks:
- Sonata No.4 In E Flat Major, Op7: Allegro molto e con brio
- Sonata No.4 In E Flat Major, Op7: Largo con gran espressione
- Sonata No.4 In E Flat Major, Op7: Allegro
- Sonata No.4 In E Flat Major, Op7: Rondo: Poco allegretto e grazioso
- Sonata No.9 In E Major, Op.14 No.1: Allegro
- Sonata No.9 In E Major, Op.14 No.1: Allegretto
- Sonata No.9 In E Major, Op.14 No.1: Rondo: Allegro comodo
- Sonata No.10 In G Major, Op.14 No.2: Allegro
- Sonata No.10 In G Major, Op.14 No.2: Andante
- Sonata No.10 In G Major, Op.14 No.2: Scherzo: Allegro assai
Tracks:
- Sonata No.11 In B Flat Major, Op.22: Allegro con brio
- Sonata No.11 In B Flat Major, Op.22: Adagio con molta espressione
- Sonata No.11 In B Flat Major, Op.22: Menuetto
- Sonata No.11 In B Flat Major, Op.22: Rondo: Allegretto
- Sonata No.12 In A Flat Major, Op.26: Andante von variazioni
- Sonata No.12 In A Flat Major, Op.26: Scherzo: Allegro molto
- Sonata No.12 In A Flat Major, Op.26: Marcia funebre sulla morte d'un Eroe: Maestoso andante
- Sonata No.12 In A Flat Major, Op.26: Allegro
- Sonata No.13 In E Flat Major, Op.27 No.1: Andante - Allegro
- Sonata No.13 In E Flat Major, Op.27 No.1: Allegro molto e vivace
- Sonata No.13 In E Flat Major, Op.27 No.1: Adagio con espressione - Allegro vivace
Tracks:
- SONATA NO.8 IN C MINOR, OP.13 'PATHETIQUE': Grave - Allegro molto e con brio
- SONATA NO.8 IN C MINOR, OP.13 'PATHETIQUE': Adagio cantabile
- SONATA NO.8 IN C MINOR, OP.13 'PATHETIQUE': Rondo: Allegro
- Sonata No.14 InC Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight': Adagio sostenuto
- Sonata No.14 InC Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight': Allegretto
- Sonata No.14 InC Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight': Presto agitato - Adagio - Presto agitato
- SONATA NO.23 IN F MINOR, OP.57 'APPASSIONATA': Allegro assai - Piu allegro
- SONATA NO.23 IN F MINOR, OP.57 'APPASSIONATA': Andante con moto
- SONATA NO.23 IN F MINOR, OP.57 'APPASSIONATA': Allegro ma non troppo - Presto
Tracks:
- Sonata No.15 In D Major, Op.28 'Pastoral': Allegro
- Sonata No.15 In D Major, Op.28 'Pastoral': Andante
- Sonata No.15 In D Major, Op.28 'Pastoral': Scherzo: Allegro vivace
- Sonata No.15 In D Major, Op.28 'Pastoral': Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
- Sonata No.21 In C Major, Op.53 'Waldstein': Allegro con brio
- Sonata No.21 In C Major, Op.53 'Waldstein': Introduzione (Adagio molto) - Rondo (Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo)
- Sonata No.19 In G Minor, Op.49 No.1: Andante
- Sonata No.19 In G Minor, Op.49 No.1: Rondo: Allegro
- Sonata No.20 In G Major, Op.49 No.2: Allegro ma non troppo
- Sonata No.20 In G Major, Op.49 No.2: Tempo di menuetto
Tracks:
- Sonata No. 16 In G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: Allegro vivace
- Sonata No. 16 In G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: Adagio grazioso
- Sonata No. 16 In G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: Rondo: Allegretto - Adagio - Presto
- Sonata No. 17 In D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'The Tempest': Largo - Allegro
- Sonata No. 17 In D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'The Tempest': Adagio
- Sonata No. 17 In D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'The Tempest': Allegretto
- Sonata No.18 In E Flat Major, Op.31 No.3: Allegro
- Sonata No.18 In E Flat Major, Op.31 No.3: Scherzo: Allegretto vivace
- Sonata No.18 In E Flat Major, Op.31 No.3: Menuetto: Moderato grazioso
- Sonata No.18 In E Flat Major, Op.31 No.3: Presto con fuoco
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- Sonata No.24 In F Sharp Major, Op.78: Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo
- Sonata No.24 In F Sharp Major, Op.78: Allegro vivace
- Sonata No.25 in G major, Op.79: Presto alla tedesca
- Sonata No.25 in G major, Op.79: Andante
- Sonata No.25 in G major, Op.79: Vivace
- Sonata No.26 In E Flat Major, Op.81a 'Les Adieux': Das Lebewohl (Les Adieux): Adagio - Allegro
- Sonata No.26 In E Flat Major, Op.81a 'Les Adieux': Abwesenheit (L'Absence): Andante espressivo
- Sonata No.26 In E Flat Major, Op.81a 'Les Adieux': Wiedersehn (Le Retour): Vivacissimamente - Poco andante - Tempo 1
- Sonata No.27 In E Minor, Op.90: Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
- Sonata No.27 In E Minor, Op.90: Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorzutragen
Tracks:
- Sonata No.28 In A Major, Op.101: Allegretto ma non troppo
- Sonata No.28 In A Major, Op.101: Vivace alla Marcia
- Sonata No.28 In A Major, Op.101: Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto - Tempo del primo pezzo - Allegro
- Sonata No.29 In B Flat Major, Op.106 'Hammerklavier': Allegro
- Sonata No.29 In B Flat Major, Op.106 'Hammerklavier': Scherzo: Assai vivace - Presto - Tempo 1
- Sonata No.29 In B Flat Major, Op.106 'Hammerklavier': Adagio sostenuto
- Sonata No.29 In B Flat Major, Op.106 'Hammerklavier': Largo - Allegro - Prestissimo - Allegro risoluto (Fuga a tre voci, con alcune licenze)
Tracks:
- Sonata No.30 In E Major, Op.109: Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo - Tempo 1
- Sonata No.30 In E Major, Op.109: Prestissimo
- Sonata No.30 In E Major, Op.109: Tema: Andante molto cantabile e espressivo - Variazioni 1-6
- Sonata No.31 In A Flat Major, Op.110: Moderato cantabile, molto espressivo
- Sonata No.31 In A Flat Major, Op.110: Allegro molto
- Sonata No.31 In A Flat Major, Op.110: Adagio ma non troppo
- Sonata No.31 In A Flat Major, Op.110: Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo - L'istesso tempo di arioso - L'istesso tempo della Fuga - Meno allegro
- Sonata No.32 in C minor, op.111: Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
- Sonata No.32 in C minor, op.111: Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile - Variazioni
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Barenboim's Beethvoen.......2007-06-27
One of the very best ever.......2007-02-15
dead in the water.......2007-01-12
Better off finding a better performance of these if you really want to be "blown away". My favorite "Beethoven" conductor would have to be Herbert von Karajan; and as for individual pianists my all time favorite is Maurizio Pollini, whose performances are exquisite, in both technique and expression! If you are a music lover you should really check his work out if you haven't already. My favorite Beethoven CD by him is "Die Spaten Klaviersonaten" (Beethoven) by Deutsche Grammophon in their "legendary recordings" series. It is a real gem! (the sound quality is excellent also)
Sublime expression nourished by a colossal vision!.......2006-03-23
And that is a very remarkable good point in this musical moment where the pianist technique is eclipsing and even annulling the personal approach in the most of pianists all over the world. Honesty, conviction, vision and commitment dress those interpretations loaded of expression and personality.
In the great tradition of the great Beethovenian keyboard giants of the past, Daniel explores and plays every little bar with that well felt intensity of someone who in Beethoven `s there is much more than simple music. In Beethoven the music is not a goal by itself; but a revelation superior to any philosophy; all his musical legacy possess values that are placed of the standards. There is not art without second intention and that is precisely what Barenboim has made with this fabulous cycle of Beethoven Sonatas.
If you really want to listen remarkable performances far beyond of the trivial conventionalisms, go for this record.
Performed with great enthusiasm.......2004-05-16
Personally, I think his style is just right for Beethoven (but perhaps just a bit much when he plays Mozart). I'm very glad that I bought this set, but some might prefer Brendell's (Phillips) or Kempff's (DG) more sedate versions.
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Kathleen Battle · Wynton Marsalis ~ Baroque Duet / Anthony Newman · Orch St. Luke's · Nelson
George Frideric Handel , Alessandro Scarlatti , Luca Antonio Predieri , Alessandro Stradella , Johann Sebastian Bach , John Nelson , Kathleen Battle , Wynton Marsalis , Orchestra of St. Lukes , Anthony Newman , John T. Kulowitsch , Krista Bennion Feeney , Eriko Sato , and Marc Goldberg Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios
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ASIN: B0000027C1 Release Date: 1992-04-21 |
Tracks:
- Let The Bright Seraphim
- No 1: Si Suoni La Tromba
- No. 3: Con Voce Festiva
- No. 4: Rompe Sprezza
- No. 6: Mio Tesoro Per Te Moro (Aria In Forma Di Menuet Alla Francese)
- I. Sinfonia. Grave
- II. Recitativo
- III. Sinfonia-Aria
- IV. Recitativo
- V. Aria. Largo
- VI. Aria. Poco Mosso, Sempre Dolce E Leggiero-Ritornello
- VII. Recitativo
- VIII. Aria-Sinfonia. Grave (Da Capo)
- Eternal Source Of Light Divine
- Pace Una Volta
- I. Spiritosa, E Staccata
- II. (Allegretto-Corrente)
- III. Canzone
- IV. (Allegro)
- Seufzer, Tranen, Kummer, Not
- Alle Voci Del Bronzo Guerriero
- I. Aria: Jauchzet Gott In Allen Landen
- IV. Chorale: Sei Lob Und Preis Mit Ehren; Alleluja
Customer Reviews:
Brilliant! .......2007-05-31
My Birthday Present to me.......2007-05-29
Amazing voice.......2007-05-13
One of the Best.......2007-01-05
Battle and Marsalis scintillating and stunning.......2006-12-28
The album is packed with regal music and royal performances. Bach's 51st cantata is particularly captivating, what with its technical demands and relentless pace. But Battle and Marsalis are able to derive strength and energy from one another in the film - through the difficult preparation process of confronting its daunting technical minefield - to realize a stunning result.
Bravo! Their contribution to the recorded corpus here is sublime.
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Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
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ASIN: B0002XV2XO Release Date: 2005-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Sinfonia
- Aggiorna Appena...
- O Di Capellio, Generosi Amici
- E Serbata A Questo Acciaro
- Si: M'abbraccia
- L'amo Tanto, E M'e Si Cara
- Vanne Lorenzo
- Lieto Del Dolce Incarno
- Ascolta. Se Romeo T'uccise Un Figlio
- Riedi Al Campo
- La Tremenda Ultrice Spada
- Eccomi In Lieta Vesta...
- Oh! Quante Volte
- Propizia E L'ora
- Si, Fuggire: A Noi Non Resta
- Odi Tu? L'altar Funesto
- Vieni, Ah! Vieni
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- Lieta Notte, Avventurosa
- Deh! Per Pieta, T'arresta
- Tace Il Fragor
- Che Miro?
- Soccorso, Sostegno Accordagli
- Accorriam...Romeo!
- Ne Alcun Ritorna!
- Morte Io Non Temo Il Sai
- Prendi, Gl'istanti Volano
- Deh! Padre Mio, Deh Padre Mio!
- Deserto E Il Luogo
- Chi Sei Tu?
- Qua' Voci! Oh Dio!
- Ella E Morta, O Sciagurato
- Siam Giunti
- Ecco La Tomba
- Tu Sola, O Mia Giulietta
- O Tu, Mia Sola Speme
- Ah! Crudel! Che Mai Facesti?
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Highest Level of Artistry Displayed .......2007-02-13
Now coming to the comparison made by a reviewer between Bellini and Verdi. Well, even if Bellini had lived to 80, it would not be his aim to write like Verdi. Bellini stood alone amongst the great opera composers of Italy. Even his contemporaries recognized it and called his music 'filosofico'. Bellini's aim was not to create dramas with music like Donizetti or Verdi, but rather music drama - a fact which Wagner recognized. Only that Bellini's aim was to realize it via the voice (think Norma), while Wagner did it with the orchestra. It is note-worthy that Wagner spared Bellini the usual bashing he gave to the Italians. Not only that - he admitted to Cosima that the love duet from Capuleti was the source of his inspiration for his own in Tristan. In his old age, he was proud to say that he learned from 'these pages' what Messrs Brahms etc had failed to learn. One should approach a Bellini opera as one does a Chopin Ballade or Wagner's Tristan, not Verdi. That is not to say that Verdi is inferior, but just different.
And regarding Bellini's orchestration, Wagner and Bizet were on separate occasions, were tasked to 'improve' the orchestration of Norma. Both eventually gave up the job as impossible and concluded that the orchestration written by Bellini was the most suitable. Comparing the orchestration between the early Il Pirata (with its almost Wagnerian finale!) with Norma, it dawns upon one that the decision to thin out the orchestra by Bellini was deliberate, in line with his purpose of using the voice as the primary tool to express the drama.
"Behold the Tomb".......2006-09-30
I have downoaded the text from Karadar Classical Music as well as a synopsis from Opera japonica. We learn that the Capuleti and Montecchi are local versions of the Guelph and Ghilbelline parties respectively. The Ghibelline Dante would have been allied with the Montecchi, Romeo's party. Capellio, Juliet's father, seeks to avenge the death of a son at the hands of Romeo. Romeo's part is sung by a mezzo-soprano, adding further to the absurdity of the EMI cover photo. Although Romeo and Juliet are already lovers, she refuses to elope with him out of loyalty to her father. These lovers really seem more interested in dying than in making love. Juliet does manage to declare that she breathes easier when she learns that Romeo has survived a fight. We know that Romeo has reached his appointed place when he sings, "Ecco la tomba." Janet Baker, as Romeo, shines in the slow, heart-broken singing that follows, interspersed with sympathetic passages by the chorus of Montecchi. There is no doubt that Bellini's operas allow top performers to sing as beautifully as they can. The instrumental accompaniment in this concluding scene is reduced to a bare minimum.
Well-sung Shakespearean travesty.......2005-10-15
Sound: Analog stereo. The engineering is competent, I suppose, but as a matter of personal taste I do not care for the distant and echo-y soundscape. It sounds as though the opera were taking place at the far end of a Gothic cathedral.
Documentation: No printed libretto, although there is a reference to an on-line libretto available at the EMI Classics website, (which failed to download in five tries over two days) just in case I want to listen to this opera while I am working at my computer. The accompanying essay by James Harding is the most useless I have ever found in a CD case--and that is by no means an easily earned distinction. Harding is vitally interested in Bellini's lame love life but indifferent to such trifles as the plot of the opera he is supposed to be writing about.
Format: Disk 1, Act I, Scenes 1 and 2; 60:42. Disk 2, Act I, Scene 3; Act II, Scenes 1-3; 74:23.
Bellini premiered "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" at Teatro La Fenice in Venice exactly one month before his twenty-ninth birthday. It was a success but it was not without critics. In his essay, Harding writes, "It was unfair of Berlioz to denounce I Capuleti e i Montecchi as a travesty of Shakespeare." Berlioz clearly had a point, for where the Bard had twenty characters, the librettist "Romani made do with only five. You will look in vain," Harding gushes on, "for the Nurse and Friar Laurence" and, I must add, for Mercutio, Benvolio and Paris, too. In the opera, Paris and Tybalt become a single character, Tebaldo, to the great detriment of the plot.
"I Capuleti e i Montecchi" came about midway in Bellini's too short career. The really big hits on which his fame rests were yet to come. The music is competent but somehow lacking that indefinable ping that makes "La Sonnambula," "Norma" and "I Puritani" extraordinary.
Overall, the performance is good. Best by far in the cast is Janet Baker. She does not generate overt excitement but she offers an overwhelming sense of rightness when she essays any part in the narrow range that she made her own. This recording is a little late for the best of Sills but she is still very bright and amazingly agile. As always, I feel that her voice is just a little too cool and too thin, but that is purely a matter of personal taste. It is also late for Nicolai Gedda, who sounds unexpectedly baritonal as Tebaldo, a part that any other 19th Century composer would surely have written for a baritone. (I know, I know, Gounod's Tybalt is a tenor. I sang the role, myself, back in college days. But Gounod's Tybalt is markedly different in character from Bellini's Tebaldo-Paris.) Gedda is very good, but I am not at all sure that I would have recognized him if his name had not been on the cover.
"I Capuleti e i Montecchi" is not a great opera, but three famous and very fine singers offer intelligent and entertaining performances. That's worth five stars as far as I'm concerned.
FOR THE HISTORICALLY MINDED: William Shakespeare wrote his "Romeo and Juliet" in the 1590s, in the early days of his career. As was usual for him, he based his play on older materials. The first literary mention of the Montagus and the Capulets is in Dante's "Purgatorio," vi, lines 106-108. The Montagus lived in Verona and the Capulets in Cremona. They were used by Dante as examples of warring factions that had been exterminated. About 1530, Luigi da Porto mistakenly assumed that the Montagus and the Capulets had both resided in Verona and had feuded with one another. He worked up a tale that involved two young members of his warring clans, Giulietta and Romeo. In 1554, Matteo Bandello published a novella called "Romeo e Giulietta" which proved to be an international hit. A French version was adapted from Bandello by Pierre Boaistuau in 1559. This, in turn, was translated into English in 1562 by Arthur Brooke as a "tragical history" in verse form called "Romeus and Juliet," later to be pounced on by Will Shakespeare in search of a popular hit. The only major changes that Shakespeare made in Brooke's plot were to compress the time frame and to introduce Tybalt into the story at an earlier point in order to build him up as a worthy adversary for Romeo. And, oh, yes, he created an array of living characters such as had never been conceived before.
A number of commentators have taken note of the much simplified plot of "I Capuleti e i Montecchi." They have accounted for it by declaring that Shakespeare's version was not yet well-known in the world, so Romani must have based his work on an earlier version of the story, by which I presume they mean by Bandello or even by da Porto. I don't buy that explanation. By 1830, the cult of Bardolatry was firmly established. The standard German translations (that the Germans to this day hold to be superior to the English originals) were well along. Two generations earlier, the tourist industry of Stratford Upon Avon had been given a kick start by the great actor, Garrick (in a bicentennial celebration conceived by David Garrick, written by David Garrick, produced by David Garrick, directed by David Garrick and starring David Garrick--additional dialogue by W. Shakespeare.) Just seventeen years later, Verdi would write his "Macbeth" and make sketches for a "King Lear," that greatest of all operatic might-have-beens. One of the twenty or so books that Verdi kept close to himself until the day he died was an Italian translation of the works of Shakespeare.
No, I do not think that Romani dealt with any obscure 16th Century originals. I think that he exercised a hack's privilege to pillage a respectable source for his convenience. Berlioz was correct. In both the literal and the figurative senses of the word, this is a travesty.
beautiful and moving opera .......2005-08-12
record this opera earlier in their careers (1975) yet still
be glad they did. Though there are some audible signs of vo-
cal wear their artistry and commitment are never in doubt and
they offer memorable performances. Janet Baker is on the other
hand in splendid voice and sings superbly - she portrays a
somber Romeo and is supremely moving in the tomb scene.
Robert Lloyd and Raimund Herincx offer excellent support.
Very well recorded and beautifully conducted by Maestro
Patane - a very welcome release !
Wonderful nostalgia .......2005-05-20
At the time Beverly was a known commodity in Bell Canto operas; however, Janet was mainly known as a song recitalist. Nevertheless, Janet Baker, in this opera, proves that she could sing opera with the best of them showing her great operatic credentials-she is up to every vocal challenge Bellini throws at her. She tackles the role with great artistry and beauty of tone. Her last scene STILL dissolves me to copious tears.
In this recording Beverly sings a little cautiously not throwing out high E's with abandon as before; however, her years of experience being a sublime singer of Bell Canto operas comes through. Her singing is gorgeous, sweet and touching to the highest degree, I truly believe that this recording was one of her best.
It truly is great to hear this recording again-ah the memories. Time has NOT diminished its appeal!
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La Stupenda ~ The Supreme Voice of Joan Sutherland
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ASIN: B00005OC0E Release Date: 2001-10-09 |
Tracks:
- Attila: Santo Di Patria... Allor Che I Forti Corrono - Joan Sutherland
- Lakme: Viens, Mallika... Dome Epais Le Jasmin - Joan Sutherland/Jane Berbie
- Les Contes D'Hoffmann: Les Oiseaux Dans La Charmille - Joan Sutherland
- Die Zauberflote: O Zittre Nicht, Mein Lieber Sohn... Zum Leiden Bin Ich Auserkoren - Joan Sutherland
- Linda Di Chamounix: Ah! Tardai Troppo... O Luce Di Quest'anima - Joan Sutherland
- Semiramide: Serbami Ognor Si Fido - Joan Sutherland/Marilyn Horne
- Beatrice Di Tenda Bellini: Eccomi Pronta... Deh, Se Un'urna - Joan Sutherland/Ambrosian Singers
- La Fille Du Regiment Donizetti: Pour Ce Contrat Fatal... Ah! Salut A La France - Joan Sutherland/Chor Of The ROHCG
- La Traviata: Un Di Felice - Joan Sutherland/Carlo Bergonzi
- The Bohemian Girl: I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls - Joan Sutherland
- Home Sweet Home - Joan Sutherland
- Casanova: Nuns' Chorus - Joan Sutherland/Ambrosian Light Opr Chor
- Lucia Di Lammermoor: (O Giusto Cielo!)... Il Dolce Suono Mi Colpi Di Sua Voce!... Ardon Gl'incensi.. - Joan Sutherland/Chor De L'Opera De Paris/Rene Duclos
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- Norma: Sediziose Voci... Casta Diva - Joan Sutherland/Chor Of The ROHCG/Douglas Robinson
- Alcina: Tornami A Vagheggiar - Joan Sutherland
- Con For Coloratura Soprano, Op.82: Andante - Joan Sutherland
- Con For Coloratura Soprano, Op.82: Allegro - Joan Sutherland
- Lucia Di Lammermoor: Sulla Tomba... Ah! Verranno A Te Sull'aure - Joan Sutherland/Luciano Pavarotti
- Rigoletto: Gualtier Malde... Caro Nome - Joan Sutherland/Riccardo Cassinelli/Christian Du Plessis/John Gibbs/Ambrosian Opr Chor
- Esclarmonde Massenet: Esprits De L'air! Esprits De L'onde! ... Roland! Roland! Roland! - Joan Sutherland/Huguette Tourangeau/John Alldis Chor
- Operette: Where Are The Songs We Sung? - Joan Sutherland
- The Boys From Syracuse: Falling In Love With Love - Joan Sutherland/Ambrosian Light Opr Chor
- I Puritani: Son Vergin Vezzosa - Joan Sutherland/Margreta Elkins/Pierre Duval/Ezio Flagello
- Turandot: In Questa Reggia - Joan Sutherland/Luciano Pavarotti/John Alldis Choir/Wandsworth School Boys' Choir/Russell Burgess
- Tristan Und Isolde: Mild Und Leise Wie Er Lachelt - Joan Sutherland
- Adriana Lecouvreur: Poveri Fiori - Joan Sutherland
- La Sonnambula: Ah! Non Giunge Uman Pensiero - Joan Sutherland/London Opr Chor/Terry Edwards
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La Stupenda at her best.......2007-05-06
First, let's consider a sampling of the cuts on these CDs.
"O Zittre Nicht" is from Mozart's "Magic Flute" and it is a challenge to sopranos, with its series of staccato high notes. Sutherland essays this well. There are some nice trills; she hits the high notes well. The series of (treacherous) high notes toward the end is handled very nicely by Sutherland. In short, she scintillates, with a closing high note well hit.
From Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix," she sings "O luce di questi'anima." Her voice and technique are well suited for Donizetti (and Bellini). The cantabile is smoothly sung. The cabaletta is rollicking. Her coloratura technique is on target; the ornamentation is compelling. There are trills, runs, high notes and other ornamentation well done. The close is nice (although there may be a bit of a scoop on the final high note).
From "Beatrice di Tenda" (by Bellini), we hear ""Eccomi pronta. . .Deh, se un'urna." The cantabile is sung well. She hits notes clearly. The spirited cabaletta follows. Sutherland exhibits somewhat less ornamentation than usual, but trills are well done and, overall, the piece is nicely sung. The close features clean high notes.
"Home Sweet Home." This kind of illustrates Joan Sutherland's work nicely. I can hardly make out the words (and it is sung in English). But it is an interesting version. She sings the song straight, without overpowering the song with operatic technique (an occasional trill actually works out well).
Elsewhere, I have commented on her 1959 version of the "Mad Scene" from "Lucia di Lammermoor" (from her album "The Greatest Hits").
"Falling in Love with Love" is an interesting cut. This is a classic Rodgers and Hart song. Sutherland sings it pretty well, and one can pick up the words cleanly. However, one might compare this with Anna Moffo's version, which is more musical. Sutherland's version is a bit too operatic for what the song is about.
Finally, "Ah non giunge" from Bellini's "La Sonnambula," a great coloratura tune! This is taken at a sprightly pace. Sutherland exhibits good coloratura technique. There is nice ornamentation. She precisely nails high notes. In the repeat, the florid singing ramps up. This is a compelling version, with series of staccato high notes to close the work out.
Thus, this 2 CD set is a welcome entrée to the body of work of Dame Joan Sutherland. Sometimes (as with "Home Sweet Home") one has a hard time picking out the words. But with Sutherland, the skills and techniques create a compelling oeuvre that is well worth attending to.
this is the one to buy.......2007-04-18
La Stupenda lives up to her name.......2006-11-12
La Stupenda, Amore, amore, amore.......2006-01-28
La Stupenda - well deserved title for Joan.......2006-01-12
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- Artaxerxes: The Soldier Tir'd
- Samson: Let The Bright Seraphim
- Norma: Sediziose voci ... Casta diva ... Ah! bello a me ritorna
- I Puritani: Son vergin vezzosa (Polonaise)
- Semiramide: Bel raggio lusinghier
- I Puritani: O rendetemi la speme ... Qui la voce ... Vien, diletto
- La Sonnambula: Care compagne ... Come per me sereno ... Sovra il sen
- Faust: O Dieu! que de bijoux ... Ah! je ris de me voir
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- Romeo et Juliette: Ah! Je veux vivre
- Otello: Mia madre aveva una povera ancella ... Piangea cantando
- Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail: Martern aller Arten
- La Traviata: E' strano ... Ah, fors'e lui ... Sempre libera
- Hamlet: A vos jeux, mes amis
- Lakme: Ah! Ou va la jeune Indue
- Les Huguenots: O beau pays de la Touraine!
- Rigoletto: Gualtier Malde ... Caro nome
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In February 1959, an unknown (well, comparatively) Australian singer appeared at Covent Garden in Franco Zeffirelli's new production of Lucia di Lammermoor and took the world by storm. The following year, Joan Sutherland went into the studio to record this reissued tribute to prima donnas of previous generations, illustrating along the way the bel canto tradition of which she was to become a leading exponent. The 16 excerpts on this digitally remastered double CD include several roles she had already sung or was on the verge of singing, from Gilda in Rigoletto, which she had sung at Covent Garden before her Lucia debut, to Norma. What a performance! The voice is fresh, remarkable in its beauty, and she makes it all sound so effortless, tossing off Handel's "Let the bright Seraphim" or the Jewel aria from Gounod's Faust as if they're the easiest things in the world. This sparkling selection of glorious singing demonstrates just why Sutherland was to remain at the top of her profession for the next 30 years and join those to whom she here pays tribute as one of the great singers of all time. --Richard FawkesCustomer Reviews:
La Stupenda is stupendous on this recording. Don't miss it!.......2007-01-05
I completely disagree with those who believe that Sutherland lost the gleam on her voice after 1961. It's true that she suffered for several years with intermittently poor diction and rhythmic lapses, but these were due to terrible medical problems and the results of serious operations that were required to restore her health. Later she recovered most of her vocal lustre and all of her enthusiasm for performing, and her diction steadily improved. Her fabulous technique remained intact until her retirement in 1990.
No singers sound as fresh at 50 as they do at 30. Just listen to how Callas sounded in her later years, when her voice had almost completely deteriorated, and her career was far shorter than Sutherland's. The fact is that Sutherland sang in public for forty years, without amplification and often in barnlike theatres, and yet she still sounded formidable when she retired. Just listen to her performance of the final aria from "Lucrezia Borgia" on YouTube. I heard her debut in that role, again in Vancouver, shortly before that Covent Garden performance, and can attest that she was still in fabulous voice at the age of 53 and her coloratura remained spectacular.
What "The Art of the Prima Donna" gives us is the memory of an unparalleled vocal phenomenon in her glorious youth, before her physical disabilities briefly interrupted her career. No singer since has created a recording that exhibits anything like the range, vocal beauty and versatility that Sutherland displayed on this historic recording--not Callas, nor Caballe, nor Sills, nor any of their recent imitators. The title of this recording was not an exaggeration. This is singing that truly revived "The Age of Bel Canto," to quote the title of another Sutherland recording. "The Art of the Prima Donna" and Sutherland's earlier recordings, if you can get them, constitute an invaluable legacy from an artist who truly restored the golden age of singing.
Sutherland is Amazing.......2006-06-29
In her repertoire, JS was one of the greatest voices with an incredible technique and style that ever made recordings. This is a great CD - but some others which were issued on vinyl but to my knowledge not on CD help round out the Sutherland greatnes, viz., Command Performance, The Age of Bel Canto and the French Opera Album. She did a 2 disc set called "A Festival of Baroque Operas- There is an aria called "Barbaro, Barbaro" which is mind boggling for the speed and clarity of its coloratura. Even in 1977 at 51 yrs old her video performance of Lucrezia Borgia is amazing - it is one of the greatest performances she ever did- exciting, tender and again with that huge voice and flexibility. The last scene is amazing.
Flawless-NO Unique-WITHOUT A DOUBT!!!!!
A Phenomenal Historic Recording Newly Minted.......2005-10-08
One wonders if any other soprano in history ever sang so fast, so high and so loud while always preserving such a full, golden, round sound. Sutherland was a genuine vocal phenomenon, and even those who don't generally care for her singing surely must find their jaws on the floor repeatedly during this recital. Every selection has something treasurable. My personal favorites: "A soldier tir'd," "Bel raggio lusinghier," "Qui la voce," "Come per me sereno," the "Hamlet" Mad Scene, the Bell Song, and "O beau pays."
The remastering is superb, enabling us to hear Sutherland's voice in all its pristine glory. The engineers have even managed to mitigate the rumble of Underground trains (the Picadilly Line?) that were a perpetual problem in Kingsway Hall, although I was glad to hear that the loud yell in the distance one hears during the "Croce e delizia" section of "Ah, fors'e lui" is still there; by now it is an old friend, and I would miss it.
Canary in the silver mine .......2005-09-20
However, after digesting this CD for several weeks, I still have a mixed response to all these Stupendous vocalistics.
The beginning is the main sour note- Arne is tired, with often imprecise, behind the beat coloratura, quite unlike the rest of Sutherland's output, and Let the Bright Seraphim is unbelievably leaden- the orchestra in particular sounds awful, and clunky. I can't comment on ornamentation here because I didn't detect any. This is a poor man's Seraphim, only impressive if you never heard any other versions, and Sutherland's voice is wasted in this piece.
This CD really picks up with Casta Diva, a dazzling showcase for Sutherland's voice. I was very impressed with Sutherland's performance as Norma in this recording- what happened to her in later years, when her "acting" was limited to, as she herself described it, wearing a "generally pained expression" and singing without much color or feeling?
Pieces from I Puritani are great, then we get excellent Rossini, wonderful Jewel Song, and then sparkling Juliet and very effective, beautiful and dramatically involved Desdemona.
And then- another fly in the ointment, Marten Aller Arten. This is one of my favourite arias and I can be very unforgiving when it comes to its performance, plus I like Konstanze to be really angry and wired, which is sort of opposite of what Joan does. This is a pretty, chirpy Marten, and she works hard on her German- way too hard actually, she seems to be slowing down trying to pronounce it, and still "Ich verlache" and "mich" turn into "Ich ve-ayee" and "meeeh", plus she does not sound as secure on top as I would expect, with a metallic high C. She picks up at the very end, putting some feeling into the sound, then topples again... This is a hit and miss one.
Fortunately the rest of the CD is filled with sparklers more in Sutherland's vein. Violetta is really great, with a fantastic high E, Ophelia is nice, Lakme is vocally one of the best I have ever heard, the dull Meyerbeer aria is made interesting and shimmery- that fabulous trill is finally put to work after many tracks of underuse- and then it all ends with a most charming Gilda.
It's not the greatest vocal performance ever put on vinyl/plastic/megabites, but overall, a good, historical set to add to your collection of opera recitals and soprano specials.
Bel Canto from an angelic voice.......2005-04-19
2. Samson, oratorio, HWV 57 Let the bright Seraphim
Composed by George Frideric Handel
with Joan Sutherland
A sparkling and intense interpretation of this well known yet hardly ever magnificently performed piece. Lucid, beautiful and technically impeccable.
3. Norma, opera Sediziose voci... Casta diva... Ah! bello
Composed by Vincenzo Bellini
with Joan Sutherland
Surely her best studio-recording of this killer-aria. She is one of the few Normas who masters the recitativo without cracking or sounding strained, yet full of authority and intelligent drama. The Casta Diva itself is fluent, the make-or-break coloratura wonderfully executed. As for the cabaletta, not since young Callas in 1949 have I heard this piece sung so beautifully! Amazing high notes crown a cabaletta that broke more than one famous Norma before.
6. I Puritani, opera O rendetemi la speme... Qui la voce... Vien, diletto
Composed by Vincenzo Bellini
A Bellinian madscene at its finest. Once again only Callas in 1949 can be compared to this wonder of a recording. Callas too found darker colours and more intensity. (Dolore e passione as described in the score) Sutherland may lack these but she sings it with her own sense for drama which is uniquely sublime.
10. Otello, opera Mia madre aveva una povera ancella... Piangea cantando
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
with Joan Sutherland
An interesting and excellent choice. There are pictures of Joan Sutherland as Desdemona and what a pity that no complete recording of her performances survived. I find her Desdemona to be far more convincing than Tebaldi because she sounds more fragile and elegant, plus she has that silvery tone of innocence that I don't hear in Tebaldi's golden, sensual voice. Excellent in the floating lines, beautiful and tender in the cantabile.
16. Rigoletto, opera Gualtier Maldè... Caro nome
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
with Joan Sutherland
This can be compared to Maria Callas' live-performance of this piece and, being in excellent sound, might be preferred. (Callas was excellent in the studio as well, yet in 1955 she was less daring and defying) Stunningly intense in the cantabile and brilliant in the coloratura-passages. Far better than her famous performance with Pavarotti where she had lost the youthful, silvery sound that made her earlier Gilda so loveable.
I do not adore her as much in French opera and La Traviata or anything German but that doesn't mean that her singing was anything but amazing, just a personal preference. In short: Buy it and discover why Joan Sutherland is indeed La Stupenda!
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- Passacaglia For Orchestra Op. 1: Sehr massig, Tempo I - Massig bewegt, Tempo II - Sehr lebhaft, Tempo III
- 5 Movements Op. 5: I. Heftig bewegt
- 5 Movements Op. 5: II. Sehr langsam
- 5 Movements Op. 5: III. Sehr lebhaft
- 5 Movements Op. 5: IV. Sehr langsam
- 5 Movements Op. 5: V. In zarter Bewegung
- 6 Pieces For Orchestra Op. 6: I. Etwas bewegte Achtel
- 6 Pieces For Orchestra Op. 6: II. Bewegt
- 6 Pieces For Orchestra Op. 6: III. Zart bewegt
- 6 Pieces For Orchestra Op. 6: IV. Langsam. Marcia funebre
- 6 Pieces For Orchestra Op. 6: V. Sehr langsam
- 6 Pieces For Orchestra Op. 6: VI. Zart bewegt
- 2 Arrangements: J.S. Bach: Fuga (Ricercata) a 6 voci: Sehr massig
- Franz Schubert: German Dances Op. Post. D 820: No. 1 - No. 2 (No. 1) - No. 3 ( No. 1) In A Flat Major
- Franz Schubert: German Dances Op. Post. D 820: No. 4 - No. 5 (No. 4) - No. 6 (No. 4) In B Flat Major
- Im Sommerwind - Idyll For Large Orchestra: Ruhig bewegt - Ruhig - Lustig - Schnell - Feierlich bewegt - Voll Schwung - Aufjauchzend - sehr ruhig und weihevoll
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- 5 Pieces For Orchestra: II. Langsam (sostenuto)
- 5 Pieces For Orchestra: III. Sehr bewegte Viertel
- 5 Pieces For Orchestra: IV. Langsame Viertel
- 5 Pieces For Orchestra: V. (Alla breve)
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- 3 Orchestral Songs: II. Kunfttag III: 'Nun wird es wieder Lenz'
- 3 Orchestral Songs: III. 'O sanftes Gluhn der Berge'
- Symphony Op. 21: I. Ruhig schreitend
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- Cantata No. 1 Op. 29: III. 'Tonen die seligen Saiten Apolls' - Ruhig
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- Cantata No. 2 Op. 31: II. 'Sehr tief verhalten innerst Leben' - Sehr verhalten
- Cantata No. 2 Op. 31: III. 'Schopfen aus Brunnen des Himmels' - Sehr bewegt
- Cantata No. 2 Op. 31: IV. 'Leichteste Burden der Baume' - Sehr lebhaft
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- 5 Pieces for Orchestra op. 10: V. Sehr fliessend
- 4 Lieder op. 13: I. Wiese im Park: 'Wie wird mir zeitlos'
- 4 Lieder op. 13: II. Die Einsame: 'An dunkelblauem Himmel'
- 4 Lieder op. 13: III. In der Fremde: 'In fremden Lande lag ich'
- 4 Lieder op. 13: IV. Ein Winterabend: 'Wenn der Schnee ans Fenster fallt'
- 6 Lieder op. 14: I. Die Sonne: 'Taglich kommt die gelbe Sonne'
- 6 Lieder op. 14: II. Abendland I: 'Mond, als trate ein Totes'
- 6 Lieder op. 14: III. Abendland II: 'So leise sind die grunen Walder'
- 6 Lieder op. 14: IV. Abendland IV: 'Ihr grossen Stadte steinern aufgebaut'
- 6 Lieder op. 14: V. Nachts: 'Die Blaue meiner Augen'
- 6 Lieder op. 14: VI. Gesang einer gefangenen Amsel: 'Dunkler Odem im grunen Gezweig'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: I. 'Das Kreuz, das musst' er tragen'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: II. Morgenlied: 'Steht auf, ihr lieben Kinderlein'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: III. 'In Gottes Namen aufstehn'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: IV. 'Mein Weg geht jetzt voruber'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: V. 'Fahr hin, o Seel', zu deinem Gott'
- 5 Canons op. 16: I. 'Christus factus est'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: II. 'Dormi Jesu, mater ridet' From 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: III. 'Crux fidelis'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: IV. 'Asperges me, Domine'
- 5 Sacred Songs op. 15: V. 'Crucem tuam adoramus, Domine'
- 3 Traditional Rymes op. 17: I. 'Armer Sunder, du'
- 3 Traditional Rymes op. 17: II. 'Liebste Jungfrau, wir sind dein'
- 3 Traditional Rymes op. 17: III. 'Heiland, unsre Missetaten'
- 3 Lieder for voice, E flat clarinet and guitar op. 18: I. 'Schatzerl klein'
- 3 Lieder for voice, E flat clarinet and guitar op. 18: II. Erlosung: 'Mein Kind, sieh an' From 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
- 3 Lieder for voice, E flat clarinet and guitar op. 18: III. 'Ave , Regina coelorum'
- 2 Lieder op. 19 for mixed choir: I. 'Wiess wie Lilien'
- 2 Lieder op. 19 for mixed choir: II. 'Ziehn die Schafe'
- Quartet op. 22: I. Sehr massig
- Quartet op. 22: II. Sehr schwungvall
- Concerto op. 24: I. Etwas lebhaft
- Concerto op. 24: II. Sehr schwungvoll
- Concerto op. 24: III. Sehr rasch
Tracks:
- 3 Poems: I. Vorfruhling: 'Leise tritt auf...'
- 3 Poems: II. Nachtgebet der Braut: 'O mein Geliebter'
- 3 Poems: III. Fromm: 'Der Mond scheint auf mein Lager'
- 8 Early Lieder: I. Tief von fern: 'Aus des Abends weissen Wagen'
- 8 Early Lieder: II. Aufblick: 'Uber unsre Liebe hangt eine Trauerweide'
- 8 Early Lieder: III. Bleuengruss: 'Der Strauss, den ich gepflucket'
- 8 Early Lieder: IV. Bild der Liebe: 'Von Wald umgeben'
- 8 Early Lieder: V. Sommerbend: 'Du Sommerbend! Heilig, goldnes Licht!'
- 8 Early Lieder: VI. Heiter: 'Mein Herz ist wie ein See so weit'
- 8 Early Lieder: VII. Der Tod: 'Ach, es ist do dunkel in des Todes Kammer'
- 8 Early Lieder: VIII. Heimgang in der Fruhe: 'In der Dammerung'
- 3 Lieder on poems by Ferdinand Avenarius: I. Gefunden: 'Nun wir uns lieben, rauscht mein stolzes Gluck'
- 3 Lieder on poems by Ferdinand Avenarius: II. Gebet: 'Ertrage du's, lass schneiden dir den Schmerz'
- 3 Lieder on poems by Ferdinand Avenarius: III. Greunde: 'Schmerze und Freuden reift jede Stunde'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Richard Dehmel: I. Ideale Landschaft: 'Du hattest einen Glanz auf deiner Stirn'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Richard Dehmel: II. Am Ufer: 'Die Wlet verstummt, dein Blut erklingt'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Richard Dehmel: III. Himmelfahrt: 'Schwebst du nieder aus den Weiten'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Richard Dehmel: IV. Nachtliche Scheu: 'Zaghaft vom Gewolk ins Land'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Richard Dehmel: V. Helle Nacht: 'Weich kusst die Zweige der weisse Mond'
- 5 Lieder from 'Der siebente Ring' by Stefan George op. 3: I. 'Dies ist ein lied'
- 5 Lieder from 'Der siebente Ring' by Stefan George op. 3: II. ''Im windes-weben'
- 5 Lieder from 'Der siebente Ring' by Stefan George op. 3: III. 'An baches ranft'
- 5 Lieder from 'Der siebente Ring' by Stefan George op. 3: IV. 'Im morgen-taun'
- 5 Lieder from 'Der siebente Ring' by Stefan George op. 3: V. 'Kahl reckt der baum'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Stefan George op. 4: I. Eingang: 'Welt der gestalten lang lebewohl!'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Stefan George op. 4: II. Noch zwingt mich treue uber dir zu wachen'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Stefan George op. 4: III. 'Ja heil und dank dir'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Stefan George op. 4: IV. 'So ich traurig bin'
- 5 Lieder on poems by Stefan George op. 4: V. 'Ihr tratet zu dem herde'
- 4 Lieder on poems by Stefan George: I. 'Erwachen aus dem tiefsten traumes-schoosse'
- 4 Lieder on poems by Stefan George: II. Kunfttag I: 'Dem bist du kind, dem freund'
- 4 Lieder on poems by Stefan George: III. Trauer I: 'So wart bis ich dies dir noch kunde'
- 4 Lieder on poems by Stefan George: IV. 'Das lockere saatgefilde lechzet krank'
- 4 Lieder op. 12: I. 'Der Tag ist vergangen' - Folksong
- 4 Lieder op. 12: II. Die geheimnisvolle Flote: 'An einem Abend, da die Blumen dufteten' - Li-Tai-Po
- 4 Lieder op. 12: III. 'Schien mir's, als ich sah die Sonne' - 'Gespenstersonate'
- 4 Lieder op. 12: IV. Gleich und gleich: 'Ein Blumenglockchen'
- 3 Songs From 'Viae inviae' by HildegardJone op. 23: I. 'Das dunkle Herz, das in sich lauscht'
- 3 Songs From 'Viae inviae' by HildegardJone op. 23: II. Es sturzt aus Hohen Frische'
- 3 Songs From 'Viae inviae' by HildegardJone op. 23: III. Herr Jesus mein'
- 3 Lieder on poems by Hildegard Jone op. 25: I. 'Wie bein ich froh!'
- 3 Lieder on poems by Hildegard Jone op. 25: II. 'Des Herzens Purpurvogel fliegt durch Nacht'
- 3 Lieder on poems by Hildegard Jone op. 25: III. 'Sterne, ihr silbernen Bienen der Nacht'
Tracks:
- Slow Movement For String Quartet: Langsam, mit bewegtem Ausdruck
- 5 Movements For String Quartet: I. Heftig bewegt
- 5 Movements For String Quartet: II. Sehr langsam
- 5 Movements For String Quartet: III. Sehr bewegt
- 5 Movements For String Quartet: IV. Sehr langsam
- 5 Movements For String Quartet: V. In zarter Bewegung
- String Quartet
- 6 Batatelles For String Quartet op. 9: I. Massig
- 6 Batatelles For String Quartet op. 9: II. Leicht bewegt
- 6 Batatelles For String Quartet op. 9: III. Ziemlich fliessend
- 6 Batatelles For String Quartet op. 9: IV. Sehr langsam
- 6 Batatelles For String Quartet op. 9: V. Ausserst langsam
- 6 Batatelles For String Quartet op. 9: VI. Fliessend
- Rondo For String Quartet: Bewegt
- Movement For String Trio op. post.: Ruhig fliessend
- 3 Pieces For String Quartet: I. Bewegt
- 3 Pieces For String Quartet: II. Langsam: Grief Always; Looking Upward; Heaven's Dew; Memory; Black Flowers; On Breast; Out Of Mother
- 3 Pieces For String Quartet: III. Nicht zu langsam
- String Trio op. 20: I. Sehr langsam
- String Trio op. 20: II. Sehr getragen und ausdrucksvoll
- String Quartet op. 28: I. Massig
- String Quartet op. 28: II. Gemachlich - Bewegt
- String Quartet op. 28: III. Sehr fliessend
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- 2 Pieces For Cello And Piano: I. Langsam
- 2 Pieces For Cello And Piano: II. Langsam
- Movement For Piano: Lebhaft
- Sonata Movement (Rondo) For Piano: (Bewegt) - Ruhig bewegt - Sehr ruhig
- 4 Pieces For Violin And Piano op. 7: I. Sehr langsam
- 4 Pieces For Violin And Piano op. 7: II. Rasch
- 4 Pieces For Violin And Piano op. 7: III. Sehr langsam
- 4 Pieces For Violin And Piano op. 7: IV. Bewegt
- 3 Little Pieces For Cello And Piano op. 11: I. Massige
- 3 Little Pieces For Cello And Piano op. 11: II. Sehr bewegt
- 3 Little Pieces For Cello And Piano op. 11: III. Ausserst ruhig
- Cello Sonata: Sehr bewegt
- Children's Piece For Piano: Lieblich
- Piano Piece: Im Tempo eines Menuetts
- Variations For Piano op. 27: I. Sehr massig
- Variations For Piano op. 27: II. Sehr schnell
- Variations For Piano op. 27: III. Ruhig fleissend
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Pierre Boulez's Complete Webern Edition appears just over two decades after his last traversal. Well, it's not literally complete, but does have enough early works to set the mature ones in the right context. These days, Webern is no longer seen so much as a new music guru as he is a major composer, pure and simple--his expression as concise as it is intense. Performancewise, there's a quality of musicianship here that few previous recordings have matched; familiarity with the idiom certainly plays its part, but so does Boulez's belief that what we're hearing needs to be presented with conviction. Try the Passacaglia, sensuous music that combines the soundworld of Brahms and Mahler, or the string quartet or orchestra pieces--miniatures in duration, but whole dramas of expression.Ease of performance doesn't always make this music easy to come to grips with: the song cycles need several listenings to grasp the meaning behind the compression, while the later instrumental and choral works have a luminous austerity that looks back to Bach and beyond to Renaissance masters such as Schütz and Isaac. While much of Webern's music has long been admired, only now is it becoming possible to respond to it through the heart as well as the brain. This set, superbly packaged and comprehensively documented, marks a major step forward, and deserves investigating by anyone keen to appreciate something of the music's quiet, calm essence in an often strident, dislocated century. --Richard Whitehouse
Customer Reviews:
Thank You Boulez.......2001-10-23
I debated between buying this or Boulez's older Webern set and went with this one. There is much more music on this set because pieces without opus numbers are included. They lend a lot of insight into his "published" works. I also went with this set because it is a modern digital recording, the previous set being from the early 70's. I will often side with a classic recording when needed-performance over sound. Here, I'm happy to report, the listener gets both. Every detail is captured.
Thank you very much Pierre Boulez and DG for making this project happen. Please keep the Schoenberg and Berg disks coming. And thank you Anton Webern for continually opening my ears.
5 Star music. Some very good performances, some are aimless........2001-08-25
not much more to be said.......2001-08-01
a transcendent masterpiece.......2000-07-17
Nuance, detail, sensitivity.
This is not merely music, this is magic!
Five stars and a bullet.......2000-06-13
This consists of the three Webern albums Boulez has recorded for DG over the past five years or so, plus everything else Webern ever wrote. It thus scores straightaway over the earlier CBS/Sony set, which was restricted to works that had opus numbers and filled three CDs. This one includes the charming early songs, the equally early "Im Sommerwind" for orchestra and a number of posthumous and otherwise non-Opus works that didn't make it onto the earlier set. Webern is a composer whose entire output takes about six hours to listen to in its entirety, and it's all here, on six CDs.
That's fine; is it any good? Well, it's digitally recorded, and if ever a composer was born for CD, it's Webern. The pianissimos are more ppp than ever, thanks to better recording techniques. Boulez himself has also unbuttoned a bit. His earlier set, recorded between 1967 and 1972, was high on austerity and, if it fell down at all, did so on emotion. The older Boulez (he's 75 this year) is more relaxed about letting tuttis blare and climaxes, well, climax. The result is both as intellectually satisfying as we've come to expect from Boulez, and warmly expressive; in general, a more moving and less didactic set of recordings than the previous lot. And all the better for it, as far as this composer (and this listener) is concerned.
There are many benefits of a digital set, not the least being the better registration of timbral variety, which Webern (as is well known) made into a compositional principle. Even those allergic to twelve-tone music can't help but be ravished by the intricate sweetness of his arrangement of the Bach six-part fugue from the "Musical Offering". The arrangement of Schubert's German Dances has been re-recorded, and can be heard now in all its sprightliness. (The CBS/Sony set has an archive recording conducted by Webern himself in the thirties, but dodgy sound quality prevented it from shining forth properly, despite Webern's witty conducting.)
This is, for my money, the best classical recording that's likely to be released this year, if not for the next ten years. I don't know whether it's a complement to the CBS/Sony set or a replacement for it, but either way it's a wonderful package. Congratulations to all involved.
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Early Music Festival / David Munrow, Early Music Consort
Antonio Zaccara da Teramo , Giovanni Da Firenze , Lorenzo da Firenze , Jacopo da Bologna , Claudio Monteverdi , Luca Marenzio , Cristofano Malvezzi , Emilio de' Cavalieri , Costanzo Festa , Bartolomeo Tromboncino , Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da Nola , Marchetto Cara , David Munrow , John Beckett , James Bowman , Nigel Rogers , Martin Hill , John Frost , Janita Noorman , and Grayston Burgess Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Monteverdi
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ASIN: B000009DFX Release Date: 1998-07-14 |
Tracks:
- Ecca la primavera
- Lamento di Tristano
- Giuinta vaga bilta
- Questa fanciull'amor
- Trotto
- De! dinmi tu
- Con dolce brama
- Due saltarelli
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- Quan ye voy le duc
- Cara mie donna
- La bionda trecca
- La Manfredina
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- Chon bracchi assai
- Istampita Ghaetta
- Da, da, a chi avaregia
- Fenice fu' e vissi
- Biance flour
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- Music For Ferdinando de' Medici: Toccata ('Orfeo')
- Secondo intermedio: Sinfonia
- Secondo intermedio: Belle ne fe' natura
- Secondo intermedio: Chi dal delfino
- Secondo intermedio: Se nelle voci nostre
- Secondo intermedio: O figlie di Piero
- Sesto intermedio: Dal vago e bel sereno
- Sesto intermedio: O qual risplende nube
- Sesto intermedio: Godi turba mortal
- Sesto intermedio: O fortunato giorno
- Sesto intermedio: O che nuovo miracolo
- Quando ritrova
- Allemana-ripresa: Quando ritrova
- Io son l'occello
- Pavana 'La cornetta'
- Gagliarda 'Giorgio'
- Tri ciechi siamo
- Io non compro
- Ahime sospiri
- Pavana 'Forze d'Ercole'
- Orsu, orsu, car' Signori
- Pavana 'El colognese'
- Dance Songs: Era di Maggio
- Dance Songs: El marchese di Salluzzo
- Dance Songs: In questo ballo
- Dance Songs: Noi ci vogliam' partire
- Dance Songs: Bussa la porta
- Dance Songs: La pastorella
- Dance Songs: E su quel monte
- Dance Songs: Maggio valente
- Dance Songs: Sorella mia piacente
Customer Reviews:
Ahh, Florence!!.......2002-10-14
I love medieval and renaissance music. They are the "roots" of the great classics centuries later. One does not cultivate a complete education of art by studying only such Masters as Van Gogh, Renoir, Picasso, Dali etc. So it is with fine music.
These CD's contain examples of Florentine musical composition from the 1300's and 1500's. The first CD, performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort, covers compositions from the 1300's, with many of the works of Francesco Landini, the most prolific Florentine composer of this period. The second covers music from the 1500's and is performed by John Beckett and the Musica Reservata. Here we can see the early development of both symphonic structure and opera.
Both discs are wonderful examples of different periods in the history of musical development, and performed by different conductors and artists. Therefore a comparison between the two is unfair and misplaced. David Munrow and the Early Music Consort are superb, as I have always found them to be, and John Beckett and the Musica Reservata are equally enjoyable.
If you appreciate early music you will find this recording to be a fantastic addition to your collection, and perhaps the definitive collection of early Italian music. If you are unfamiliar with early music or with Italian Renaissance music then these CD's would be a wonderful introduction.
Best Italian Renaissance disc available........2002-06-28
Munrow is magnificent.......2001-11-20
boccacio would be proud.......2000-04-23
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ASIN: B00007HIBV Release Date: 2002-11-01 |
Tracks:
- Jean Sibelius: Hymnus (Natus in Curas) op. 21
- Pablo Casals: O Vos Omnes
- Carl Orff: Sunt Lacrimae Rerum
- Veljo Tormis: Varjele, Jumala, Soasta
- Josquin Des Prez: Absalon, Fili Mi
- Jean Sibelius: Sydameni Laulu op. 18.No.6
- Franz Schubert: Grab und Mond D.893
- Kenneth Jennings: Two Laments on Dylan Thomas
- Leevi Madetoja: De Profundis, op. 56
- Randall Thompson: Alleluia
- Claude Debussy: Invocation
- Samuel Barber: Heaven, Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil) op. 13, No. 1
Album Description
This new disc takes the listener on a journey from the depths of despair to the pinnacles of joy, featuring rarely heard virtuoso works for male choir by Carl Orff, Jean Sibelius, Samuel Barber, Josquin Des Pres and Claude Debussy. The newly commissioned "Two Laments on Dylan Thomas" by Kenneth Jennings, Schubert's haunting "Grab und Mond" and Randall Thompson's "Alleluia" are saturated with Cantus' emotionally-charged singing. This disc is a 24-bit high resolution recording and comes in a sumptuous sleeve, with a beautifully presented 34 page booklet.Customer Reviews:
Cantus has done it again!.......2003-12-07
Wonderful.......2002-12-31
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Clara Schumann: Complete Piano Works
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- Sonata In G Minor: Allegro
- Sonata In G Minor: Adagio
- Sonata In G Minor: Scherzo
- Sonata In G Minor: Rondo
- Romanze In B Minor
- Impromptu In E Major
- Romanze In A Minor
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- Praludium In F Minor
- Soirees Musicales Op. 6: Toccatina In A Minor
- Soirees Musicales Op. 6: Notturno In F Major
- Soirees Musicales Op. 6: Ballade In D Minor
- Soirees Musicales Op. 6: Ballade In D Minor
- Soirees Musicales Op. 6: Mazurka In G Major
- Soirees Musicales Op. 6: Polonaise In A Minor
- Etude In A-Flat Major
- Marsch In E-Flat Major
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- Praeludien Und Fugen Op. 16: Andante-Allegro Vivace
- Praeludien Und Fugen Op. 16: Allegretto-Andante
- Praeludien Und Fugen Op. 16: Andante-Andante Con Moto
- Variationen Uber Ein Thema Von Robert sSchumann Op. 20
- Trois Romances Op. 11: Andante
- Trois Romances Op. 11: Andante Und Allegro
- Trois Romances Op. 11: Moderato
- Romance Variee Op. 3
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Allegro Moderato
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Allegro Moderato
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Andantino
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Allegro
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Allegretto
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Allegro Risoluto
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Allegro Ma Non Troppo
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Allegro Assai
- Caprices En Forme De Valse Op. 2: Allegretto
- Souvenir De Vienne, Impromptu Op. 9
- Valses Romantiques Op. 4
Tracks:
- Variatons De Concert Sur La Cavatine Du Pirate De Bellini Op. 8
- Quatre Polonoises Op. 1: Polonoise In E-flat Major
- Quatre Polonoises Op. 1: Polonoise In C-Major
- Quatre Polonoises Op. 1: Polonoise In D Major
- Quatre Polonoises Op. 1: Polonoise In C Major
- Quatre Pieces Caracteristiques Op. 5: Impromptu. Le Sabbat
- Quatre Pieces Caracteristiques Op. 5: Caprice A La Bolero
- Quatre Pieces Caracteristiques Op. 5: Romance
- Quatre Pieces Caracteristiques Op. 5: Scene Fantastique. Le Ballet Des Revenants
- Quatre Pieces Fugitives Op. 15: Larghetto
- Quatre Pieces Fugitives Op. 15: Un Poco Agitato
- Quatre Pieces Fugitives Op. 15: Andante Espressivo
- Quatre Pieces Fugitives Op. 15: Scherzo
- Praludium Und Fuge
- Drei Fugen Uber Themen Von J.S. Bach: Fuga A 4 Voci In E-flat Major
- Drei Fugen Uber Themen Von J.S. Bach: Fuga A 4 Voci In E Major
- Drei Fugen Uber Themen Von J.S. Bach: Fuga A 4 Voci In G Minor
- Drei Romanzen Op. 21: Andante, Sehr Innig Bewegt, Tempo I
- Drei Romanzen Op. 21: Allegretto (Sehr Zart Zu Spielen)
- Drei Romanzen Op. 21: Agitato, Langsamer, Tempo I
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A captivating and important achievement.......2007-01-15
But it is not until now that we have, for the first time, access to the complete piano compositions of Clara Schumann. I cannot imagine a more sensitive and nuanced performance of these works than that of Jozef De Beenhouwer, a Belgian pianist who has made a specialty of the music of both Robert and Clara Schumann. He received the Robert Schumann Prize from the City of Zwickau, Schumann's birthplace, and has completed an unfinished second concerto of Clara Schumann, not included in this set.
Clara Schumann was prepared by her father not only to be a virtuoso pianist. He also envisaged her as the first great female composer. He opposed her marriage to Robert in part because he reckoned that her probable role as a wife and mother - as well as Robert's ambitions as a comoposer - would bury her talent. Clara's first group of compositions were published when she was only 11 years of age. A surviving piano concerto, Op. 7, was performed to critical acclaim when Clara was 16.
Clara Schumann continued as a famous pianist and musical presence throughout her life (40 years after her husband's tragic death). However, although Robert recognized her compositional talent and encouraged her, the birth of eight children, and her role as a wife and pianist early curtailed her compositional activity (old Wieck was right in this respect). Her compositions have widely been regarded as worth little attention in comparison to those of her husband.
But this collection lets us make up our own minds about Clara's compositions. Most are from her early years, with a few from her later life. Except for her Concerto, many of the early works are in light genres, e.g. Polonaises (Op. 1), Romances, Impromptus, etc, but I found boldness, confidence, and originality in works from her earliest years. The Scherzi, Op. 10 and 14, are powerful and technically demanding. Some of the most remarkable pieces are preludes and fuges based on themes of J.S.Bach, and themes by Robert, written in the year, 1845, which gained favorable reviews for their skill and substance.
In summary, my wife and I both find this four-CD set both highly rewarding music beyond any novelty value associated the fame of the Schumann connection. In fact, I don't hesitate to make my own assessment that had Clara had the same opportunities as Robert, she may well have equalled him as a composer and fulfilled father Friedrich's dream.
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