http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ9izR_f ... sults_main
A Sunday afternoon treat for all hispanists
Music of the Day
¨So you ride yourselves over the fields
and you make all your animal deals
and your wise men don't know how it feels
to be thick as a brick¨
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj3FUNga ... re=related
and you make all your animal deals
and your wise men don't know how it feels
to be thick as a brick¨
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj3FUNga ... re=related
One hundred years ago, April 2 1912, the Titanic was taken into service, which makes me travel a little back in time. It was a time where the great voices started recording. I just found this beautiful sextet Chi mi frena from Lucia di Lammermoor with Enrico Caruso, Luisa Tetrazzini, Josephine Jacoby, Pasquale Amato, Marcel Journet and Angelo Bada, recording from January 1912. You might also like Caruso's coat on the picture 
http://youtu.be/9xOBPjitss4
Another beautiful recording from the same year is Bella figlia dell'amore from Rigoletto. You hear Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Caruso and Amato: http://youtu.be/5XN672BRJw0
While everybody remembers Enrico Caruso, Luisa Tetrazzini is almost forgotten - for no good reason. Her technique is breathtaking and never forced, as you can hear here: http://youtu.be/5XN672BRJw0
cheers, david
http://youtu.be/9xOBPjitss4
Another beautiful recording from the same year is Bella figlia dell'amore from Rigoletto. You hear Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Caruso and Amato: http://youtu.be/5XN672BRJw0
While everybody remembers Enrico Caruso, Luisa Tetrazzini is almost forgotten - for no good reason. Her technique is breathtaking and never forced, as you can hear here: http://youtu.be/5XN672BRJw0
cheers, david
The sextet is delightful indeed. You can distinguish each and every voice and at the same time enjoy them all together in a recording that is 100 years old and achieved with no equalizer or microphone tricks. Donizetti would have loved it.davidhuh wrote:. I just found this beautiful sextet Chi mi frena from Lucia di Lammermoor . You might also like Caruso's coat on the picture
Also I particularly like Caruso´s turned up jacket cuffs. Did you notice the exact distance between the substantial sleeve horn buttons? And...even the shirt collar matches Caruso´s cleft chin elongating his rotund face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF1SXM_tvX4
Caruso...O Sole Mio.....not sleeping with fishes, but flying with angels!
This is sublime!
Caruso...O Sole Mio.....not sleeping with fishes, but flying with angels!
This is sublime!
Word of the Angel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl25yaRsWLMRowly wrote:flying with angels!
It´s Friday again.
For those who remember what an LP (and a turn table, btw) was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fvFeW8f ... re=related
For those who remember what an LP (and a turn table, btw) was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fvFeW8f ... re=related
Gentlemen,
I have neglected this thread a bit... April 22 was Ms Kathleen Ferriers' 100th birthday.
Her interpretation of "Du bist die Ruh" by Schubert is as deep and touching as everything she has recorded http://youtu.be/f_IS6sg_0Nw
Two days later, another lady celebrated her 70th birthday. Glenn Gould praised her voice "as the most beautiful, a part from Ms. Schwarzkopf..."
While I would question this judgement a little bit, she certainly has a incredible voice. Listen the glorious Barbra in Carl Orffs "In trutina" - a piece Gould was very fond of: http://youtu.be/Sab4RTrhgfs
And here is another beautiful song from the same album, based on a text by Pushkin:
http://youtu.be/IPqMmDsBDgg
Cheers, David
I have neglected this thread a bit... April 22 was Ms Kathleen Ferriers' 100th birthday.
Her interpretation of "Du bist die Ruh" by Schubert is as deep and touching as everything she has recorded http://youtu.be/f_IS6sg_0Nw
Two days later, another lady celebrated her 70th birthday. Glenn Gould praised her voice "as the most beautiful, a part from Ms. Schwarzkopf..."
While I would question this judgement a little bit, she certainly has a incredible voice. Listen the glorious Barbra in Carl Orffs "In trutina" - a piece Gould was very fond of: http://youtu.be/Sab4RTrhgfsAnd here is another beautiful song from the same album, based on a text by Pushkin:
http://youtu.be/IPqMmDsBDgg
Cheers, David
Music, music... 13 pages of it already, but how does one arrive to it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTgu6Zbq ... ure=relmfu
The answer is that you don't DO anything, you let it happen - or, more precisely, what you need to DO is lift the barriers (habits, traditions) that block its free, spontaneous manifestation (3:18 for the impatient, but the whole 10' piece is beautiful and enlightening - as well as the previous 3, and the following 2...)
Pretty much the same as Style!...?
However, MUSIC - in this man's view - is a rare phenomenon, much rarer than all the professional instrument playing and singing that goes on every day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTgu6Zbq ... ure=relmfu
The answer is that you don't DO anything, you let it happen - or, more precisely, what you need to DO is lift the barriers (habits, traditions) that block its free, spontaneous manifestation (3:18 for the impatient, but the whole 10' piece is beautiful and enlightening - as well as the previous 3, and the following 2...)
Pretty much the same as Style!...?
However, MUSIC - in this man's view - is a rare phenomenon, much rarer than all the professional instrument playing and singing that goes on every day.
My favourite reading of Beethovens ninth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqNp43GhF5o
29 July 1951
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Bass Vocals – Otto Edelmann
Contralto Vocals – Elisabeth Höngen
Soprano Vocals – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Tenor Vocals – Hans Hopf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqNp43GhF5o
29 July 1951
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Bass Vocals – Otto Edelmann
Contralto Vocals – Elisabeth Höngen
Soprano Vocals – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Tenor Vocals – Hans Hopf
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