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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Thanks for the thoughts posted by TGR on January 21, 2016 at 08:30:30:
Seems like a lot of baggage to carry to opera, given the blood and thunder that operates there.
Having been a cast member and an audience member in Rosenkavalier, I find it to be charming and funny and moving with gorgeous music. I think the 1st act is the most difficult to get through, lots of text, but there are some delightful vignettes like the tenor aria.
My favorite excerpt recording is on London with Regine Crespin (what a glorious and sensual sound!), Hilde Guden (soaring top notes) and Elizabeth Soderstrom (has sung all three leads during her great career). The conductor is Silvio Varviso, a very underrated conductor who spent some years at the Met. This was never a complete recording to my knowledge.
Complete versions that I like are Bernstein with Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry, married at the time, and, Solti with Crespin again.
Never have fallen for the echt Viennese Karajan performance. Oh, well.
Maybe an excerpt album would be a good place for you to start.
Best of luck.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
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Follow Ups
- RE: Thanks for the thoughts - Travis 12:01:40 01/21/16 (7)
- Opera baggage - TGR 17:22:53 01/21/16 (4)
- Funny, was just going to say the only Mozart opera I sincerely enjoy is Cosi; have no idea what it's about - jdaniel@jps.net 18:48:33 01/21/16 (2)
- Mozart operas - TGR 11:29:59 01/22/16 (0)
- RE: Funny, was just going to say the only Mozart opera I sincerely enjoy is Cosi; have no idea what it's about - DrChaos 19:15:48 01/21/16 (0)
- RE: You're right! - Travis 17:47:06 01/21/16 (0)
- I used to have that Crespin/Varviso highlights LP myself - Chris from Lafayette 16:10:11 01/21/16 (1)
- RE: I used to have that Crespin/Varviso highlights LP myself - Travis 16:12:15 01/21/16 (0)
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