Album of the Evening

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Gustav Mahler

Das Lied von der Erde

Placido Domingo

Bo Skovhus

Esa-Pekka Salonen/Los Angeles Philharmonic

 

 

Finally managed to get a new and sealed copy of this!  Domingo's is one of the very few male voices I love.  Bliss!

 

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George Frideric Handel

Semele

Rosemary Joshua

Christian Curnyn/Early Opera Company

 

 

 

On the whole, I think I prefer the version headlined by Kathleen Battle, but Rosemary Joshua sings the role quite winningly, and the recording overall is wonderful.  I'm happy that I now have two beautiful versions of this gorgeous "secular oratorio" by the incomparable Handel.

 

 

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux

 

 

Wonderful album!  It's been about a month since I last played it...way too long!

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Enfers

Music of Jean-Philippe Rameau and Christoph Willibald von Gluck (and the magnificent Le cahos by Jean-Féry Rebel!)

 

Stéphane Degout

Raphaël Pichon/Pygmalion

 

This is a gorgeous and thrillingly dramatic baroque "concept album."

 

 

 

 

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Richard Strauss

Tod und Verklärung

Neeme Järvi/Scottish National Orchestra

from this 2-CD set:

 

 

 

I love all of Järvi's Strauss recordings!  (and his Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, etc, etc lol!  Even if I later find a version I prefer to his, he has led me to so much musical bliss over the years!)

 

 

This is on Spotify, Tidal, and here on youtube, if anyone is interested:

 

 

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Max Bruch

Violin Concerto No. 1

Vadim Gluzman

Andrew Litton/Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

 

 

 

(Listening to the SACD Stereo tracks.)

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Pinchas Zukerman

Zubin Mehta/Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

 

Live recording from 1984

 

I had this on a CBS Masterworks cassette tape in high school, then on a CD that somehow disappeared from my collection many years ago.  Finally got a Sony Japan CD via amazon.de today!  

 

 

Also included are the Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique (Opus 26), and Mélodie (Opus 42 No. 3) that accompanied the concerto on my old CD, plus the Mendelssohn concerto with Bernstein/NY Phil from 1969.

 

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London Baroque

The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century France

 

 

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London Baroque

The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century France

 

My, how time flies!  Another century later!

 

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Richard Strauss

Aus Italien

Metamorphosen

 

Neeme Järvi/Scottish National Orchestra

 

 

 

 

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Leontyne Price  ?

 

Giacomo Puccini

Il tabarro

 

with Placido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes

Erich Leinsdorf/New Philharmonia Orchestra

 

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1 hour ago, EuroChamp said:

 

Haha! Sorry. I don‘t know, why my browser sent it more than once.

To emphasize the "forever," of course!  

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My favorite recording by Jascha Heifetz, luckily for me, also his recording with the best sound quality!

 

Jean Sibelius

Violin Concerto in D Minor

Jascha Heifetz

Walter Hendl/Chicago Symphony Orchestra

 

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Edvard Grieg

Cello Sonata

String Quartet

Truls Mørk (and others haha, see cover below!)

 

 

Truls Mørk is my favorite cellist by far!

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Richard Strauss

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Don Juan

Salome's Dance Of The Seven Veils

Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic

 

from this wonderful set:

 

 

 

(I own copy 2263 of 5000, the above pics are from the web)

 

At my desk, so listening to CD4 rather than the Blu-ray, but it sounds sublime!  

 

 

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It's a Strauss day!

 

Leontyne Price ?

 

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Leontyne Price

Live at the Ordway Music Theater

January 8th, 1985

 

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1 minute ago, EuroChamp said:

 

Ok, I don't own this own. 1:0 for you

It was a wonderful concert, and it's an official recording, not a bootleg, so sound quality is very good.  Never heard of the record label before or since, though!  I special ordered the CD after I heard Leontyne Price in concert in Detroit in 1988, where she performed a similar program.  I met her that night ?

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My favorite live jazz recording:

 

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella at Zardi's

 

A trip back in time to February 2nd, 1956

 

 

 

 

Mono, but nice and clear sound

 

Normally, I'd be listening to music for hours before going to bed, but I just noticed that Netflix has Season 2 of Ozark now, so I'll be watching that after this album! 

 

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Nina Stemme

Songs by Richard Wagner, Gösta Nystroem, August de Boeck

 

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A wonderful new recording of music by Frédéric Chopin, by one of my favorite pianists!

 

Leif Ove Andsnes

Chopin Ballades & Nocturnes

 

 

An interesting little video of him choosing a Steinway:

 

 

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6

Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Thomas Dausgaard/Swedish Chamber Orchestra

 

Something a little different:  Tchaikovsky performed by a chamber orchestra!  Beautiful clarity, and refreshing after listening to so many "normal" versions over the years.

 

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My two-year-old nephew's favorite vocal music recording:  Nina Stemme performing Richard Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder. 

 

 

 

 

He also loved it when I played her recording with piano accompaniment the other day:

 

 

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It's never too early for Christmas music!  haHaHA!!

 

Barbara Hendricks

Shout for Joy - Spiritual Christmas

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, rando said:

 

Noël sacrebleu!  I posted a Christmas hand bell album last Summer knowing there was no way I could stomach it come December.  

I am now officially ushering in the 2018 Christmas Season by playing Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You!