Vigorosa lectura de Elgar inusual y cautivante
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Una edición que merece recomendarse por su factura impecable y por tratarse
de un grupo de obras preferentemente frecuentadas por grupos amateurs en
esta o...
The Travelled Road
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The Travelled Road is a new recording of songs by Saratoga Springs based
composer Evan Mack. Mack sets a rather eclectic set of texts and his
musical styl...
Music lounge (31)
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Giulio Cesare in Egitto is Handel’s most famous opera and maybe the most
famous baroque opera in the repertoire, definitely the most often staged
around th...
Will Robin's Industry
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I've known Will Robin since his sophomore year in college, when I signed a
copy of The Rest Is Noise for him in Chicago. That summer he asked if he
could d...
Eglerio! Tolkien Sessions at Leeds IMC 2021
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Greetings all! I hope all are doing well during these mad times. In the
darkest hours of lockdown and uncertainty I have kept in mind and heart
that gr...
The Longue Durée of German Intellectual History
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It's time to write something. It's a bit of recent commentary on an old
post prompted by a new comment made on Goodreads about my review of
Sherratt's Hi...
Tomatoes
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My skills at growing vegetables seems to be rather less than growing catnip
and yellow lantana. I bught a tomato plant in spring and another late in
spring...
Still Trying to Walk Home
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<Before the November election, I wrote about my walks that grew longer and
longer taking me further and further from home as the distractions of
the politi...
David Hockney’s “Wagner Drive”
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In the (excellent) issue of The New Yorker Magazine dated January 18, 2021,
music critic Alex Ross reports on an experiential encounter with Wagner
that wa...
Who gives a Schmidt?
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Who cares if it's the right guy? It's all Schmidt anyway
Classical music gossip blogger Norman Lebrecht has been laying into
Austrian Composer Franz Schmi...
A Descent Into The Nibelheim Of The Mind
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The WAGNER & HEAVY METAL WINTER WEBLOG on music, books and the light at the
end of tunnel. From ' HEAVY' (Dan Franklin) to a heavy book 'WAGNERISM'
(Alex R...
BBC Proms 2020, or, A Proms Miscelleny for Week 3
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Welcome to the second instalment of this rather mad combination of
Previously at the Proms/What the critics said...
*Monday 3rd August - Lunchtime Chamber ...
It’s a pandemic, you can cut the recit
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It is I, your blogger, shut inside a house, like everyone. I watched the
Met’s At-Home Gala this afternoon and have some thoughts. Many of the
performances...
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Ligeti, Atmosphères
Wagner, Prelude to Lohengrin Act 1
Berg, Violin Concerto
Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F major
Vienna Philharmonic
Christoph von Dohnányi, ...
El desafío de Werther en Lima
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*La magnífica ópera de Massenet, obra cumbre del romanticismo francés,
llega en una extraordinaria producción de la Ópera de Colombia, para abrir
la Tempo...
Twerp it.
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Review – Salome (English National Opera, Friday 28 September 2018) Salome –
Allison Cook Jokanaan – David Soar Herod – Michael Colvin Herodias – Susan
Bick...
Royal Opera House announces Ring Cycles for 2018!
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Very excited by this announcement. Must start saving now…. ADVANCE
ANNOUNCEMENT Four full cycles performed September–November 2018 The 2018/19
Season open...
continuing as the flying surgeon
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As some of you may have noticed this blog has been inactive the last couple
of years. When I started this blog I worked in Denmark, but in 2011, after
I be...
The Most Terrifying Aria In All Of Opera
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The most terrifying aria in all of opera, or why Mozart stands alone as a
composer of dramma per musica. (Our thanks to The Music...
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*JULES BASTIN, BASSE CHANTANTE*
BASTIN was born in Waterloo in 1933. He was a Belgian operatic bass* who*
made his debut in 1960 at *La Monnaie*, singing ...
Carmen Aldrich
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Carmen at Chorégie d’Orange was TV live broadcast less than two weeks ago.
Contrary to the Puccini operas or the dreaded Verismo repertoire, Carmen is
alwa...
All-Wagner Concert on Friday, May 21
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Please join us for "Exquisite Love Duets and Solos by Richard Wagner," on
Friday, May 21, 2010, at Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge,
Massachu...