Forbes Classical CD of the Month: Les Troyens From Strasbourg With Joyce DiDonato

...It’s a long slog in the opera house and it’s a long slog if you do a dedicated sit-and-listen at home. But a bottle of good wine helps. And this recording, I think, helps, too. I certainly found myself involved by John Nelsons’ dramatic, vivid conducting, by the orchestra’s nuanced performance and by the singers’ interpretation and voices. With a few exceptions, the voices are lighter and more nimble than one is used to from these kinds of operas… and as a result increasingly responsive to a more subtle interpretation of the drama around them. Comic-operatic hyper-drama is out, as are overt, grand gestures (of the vocal type but, as the included DVD shows, also of the physical kind.) That’s refreshing and it does justice to the (thankfully) changing taste in operatic singing which, even in unrealistic, dramatically unconvincing operas, demands a greater amount of realism and restraint and less of the arm-waving and fist-shaking that used to be common – with all the emotion-motoric refinement of an anguished semaphore – on stages throughout the world…

-> Classical CD of the Month January 2018: Les Troyens From Strasbourg With Joyce DiDonato

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#morninglistening to #cantata #BWV42 w/#Herreweghe on...

#morninglistening to #cantata #BWV42 w/#Herreweghe on @piasclassicsusa / @harmoniamundi

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>Am Abend aber des selbigen Sabbats

Bec. @BachChor said it was just the thing on #quasimodogeniti Sunday. And in fact the Aria “Wo zwei und drei versammelt sind” is an absolute marvel amid the already most marvelous #bachcantatas

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#morninglistening to #cantata #BWV67 w/#KarlRichter & @BachChor on @dgclassics/Archiv

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>Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ
Just the thing on #quasimodogeniti Sunday.

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#morninglistening to the #Tchaikovsky #symphonies w/@LPOrchestra on @deccaclassics conducted by #igormarkevitch

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Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Zeitgeist And The Symphony -- A Viennese Treasure

Few symphonies begin as entrancingly delicate and yet as immediately enveloping as Franz Schmidt’s Second. Almost like a fireside reverie might sound, if Richard Strauss had written it… except we know how such a Straussian Fireside Reverie actually sounds, because such a symphonic interlude by that name from Richard Strauss’ opera Intermezzo exists and it is very happily coupled on this disc with Schmidt’s Symphony: A happy match then, of a neglected minor piece by a major composer and a major piece by a neglected minor composer. No. Franz Schmidt (1874 – 1939) is not a minor composer, for all the neglect that he has received. He was merely not in tune with the Zeitgeist when he composed his gorgeous music… and not famous enough so as to be immune to not being in tune with the Zeitgeist (see: Strauss, Richard)...

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Zeitgeist And The Symphony -- A Viennese Treasure

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#morninglistening to #KrzysztofMeyer #stringquartets w/#WieniawskiQuartet on @NaxosRecords

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A total @SurprisedBeauty composer!

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Also: all the spices that make an apple-pear compote taste delicious: (L2R) Tonka bean! Cardamom, Vanilla, Cinnamon flowers, Nutmeg, Cloves, Piment, Black & White Pepper

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#morninglistening to #Spohr’s #oratorio “The Last...

#morninglistening to #Spohr’s #oratorio “The Last Judgement” w/@SWRClassic Orchestra on @deccaclassics under @FestspieleErl’s #GustavKuhn

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Spohr really is the missing link between the romantic world and the classical world… almost as if Beethoven hadn’t mattered.

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#morninglistening to #LiliBoulanger’s #ChoralMusic w/#OrpheusVokalensemble on #CarusVerlag’s label

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100th #Deathiversary was on March 15th.

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(Every day is #internationalwomensday)

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