A performance by harpist Sarah Ridy of Handel’s Harp Concerto, HWV294, with the Barrocade Ensemble at the Tel Aviv Museum in March 2016.
Watch and listen here.
Category: Music
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Sarah Ridy ~ Handel’s Harp Concerto
A performance by harpist Sarah Ridy of Handel’s Harp Concerto, HWV294, with the Barrocade Ensemble at the Tel Aviv Museum in March 2016.
Watch and listen here.
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Heather Harper: Strauss ~ Four Last Songs
Heather Harper sings Richard Strauss’s Vier Letze Lieder with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox, recorded in 1987.
Listen here.
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Heather Harper: Strauss ~ Four Last Songs
Heather Harper sings Richard Strauss’s Vier Letze Lieder with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox, recorded in 1987.
Listen here.
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Karen Cargill ~ Song of the Wood Dove
Karen Cargill sings the Song of the Wood Dove from Arnold Schoenberg’s GURRE-LIEDER at the BBC Proms. The concert, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, took place in August 2017.
Watch and listen here.
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Marina Rebeka ~ Bel raggio lusinghier
Marina Rebeka sings “Bel reggio lusinghier” from Rossini’s SEMIRAMIDE from a Rosenblatt Recital given in London in 2012. Giulio Zappa is the pianist.
Watch and listen here.
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Verdi REQUIEM ~ Warsaw National Philharmonic
The Verdi REQUIEM, as recorded by the Warsaw National Philharmonic.
Kazimierz Kord conducts an all-Polish quartet of soloists: Teresa Żylis-Gara, Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa, Wiesław Ochman,and Leonard Andrzej Mróz.
Listen here.
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I found this performance of the Verdi masterwork by happy chance while looking for recordings by basso Leonard Andrzej Mróz (above). It instantly became one of my favorite recordings of the REQUIEM.
Mr. Mróz, as it turns out, passed away recently – in December 2020 at the age of 73. He was a native of Warsaw who began his career by winning voice competitions at Wroclaw, Munich, Geneva, and Amsterdam. He joined the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, in 1972 and sang there for many seasons.
The basso’s international career took him to Glyndebourne, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Moscow, Paris, Parma, Mexico, Sofia, Philadelphia, London, Lisbon, Cleveland, Leipzing, Dresden, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow, as well as opera centers in Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy.
After retiring from the stage, Mr. Mróz taught at the State Music School Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw and at the Academy of Music in Poznan.
Leonard Andrzej Mróz sings Rachmaninov’s Zdes’ khorosho here, the Death Scene from BORIS GODUNOV here, and Banquo’s aria (and murder) from Verdi’s MACBETH here.
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Evgeny Kissin ~ Beethoven Piano Concerto #1
Evgeny Kissin (above) plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #1 in a 2007 performance with the Verbier Festival Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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I first fell in love with this concerto when Helgi Tomasson set his ballet PRISM to it for the New York City Ballet in 2000.
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Sabine Devieilhe as Olympia
French soprano Sabine Devieilhe sings Olympia’s showpiece “Les Oiseaux dans la Charmille” from Offenbach’s CONTES D’HOFFMANN. Watch and listen here.
In January 2019, Mlle. Devieilhe gave a recital at Weill Hall here in New York City that was simply delightful.
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Ekaterina Semenchuk ~ O don fatale!
Ekaterina Semenchuk sings Princess Eboli’s “O don fatale!” at a 2018 Callas tribute concert in Paris. Pop-star lighting, but a super-charged performance.
Watch and listen here.
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