NormanH

If you can play CDs this is available with Jaroussky. I  can't find the performance you refer to. https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B008R9QAY6/?tag=emifr-21  brief taster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyVjEoeK9i0

Much enjoyed the interview, especially when she quite rightly corrected the pompous interviewer who wanted her to call the 'front room' the 'parlour' but she stuck to her guns [:)] Some music for November https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alX4HmI7sKE&feature=em-subs_digest&list=TLhSNyQh91dEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJqXpoasPA&feature=relmfu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgQAEwLU4js&feature=related

An amusing review reflecting the sad state of what is said to be 'classical' music http://blog.sinfinimusic.com/paul-morley-reviews-the-classic-brit-awards-2012/

On another track do you know this? An attempt to show Monteverdi madrigals in a modern setting. Whether you like the idea or not the performance is staggering, and it is really helpful to have the text in subtitles A taster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TXgEZg062Q If you like that the complete book 4 is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_E2ddZp2zI&feature=related

I have her version of the 48 on two boxed sets of CDs Shostakovich wrote a set of preludes and Fugues in homage to Bach after hearing her play and she recorded them http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A1004 She had a stroke performing them in the USA and died nine days later (not quite on stage as the story goes). What a way to go! Other performaces on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjv4ESS2LqY https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Tatiana+Nikolayeva&oq=+Tatiana+Nikolayeva&gs_l=youtube.3..0l6.728047.728047.0.729021.1.1.0.0.0.0.359.359.3-1.1.0...0.0...1ac.2.vwqFY5fXbuQ

I knew but had forgotten ...thanks fir reminding me. I am no lover of modern virtuosos but prefer the older more lyrical style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVAl47CpwOQ

Oh dear one of those forced Mediterranean tenors who sing as if they were a bull being castrated [:(] In contrast listen to the young Pavarotti before he too became like that, when he was still under the influence of musicians such as Richard Bonynge https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-TBbphDzPcwaExsMjNlemw1WDg There he understands the power of controlled piano singing in the upper register, rather than the sad con belto most of them do nowadays.

I haven't caught up yet...will do on iPlayer a  bit later. Just came across this by chance.(I was looking through the syllabus for AB music exams) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tRLr4LFeXg Translation http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070511181701AAsSuzL I think that is what is meant when one reads of Gluck 'purifying' opera[:)]

To cool you down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZUeQFcIEd4

I looked them up for you A different sort of series http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F_or6TAHGKc

I had never heard of the harp concerto. Thanks a lot [:)] If you are considering vintage performances and singers I came across this 1935 perormance of Cosi Fan Tuttè which completely belied my belief that prewar performances  of Mozart were heavy and too rich with heavy vibrato, although the voices do have the sweetness of bel canto Get beyond the very brisk overture (I imagine that the pace had something to do with the need to fit it on a 78 disc, although it also shows an extraordinary virtuosity on the part of the orchestra) and listen to Heddle Nash and John Brownlee in a a lively and sparkling Glyndbourne performance under Fritz Busch. Even the piano in the recitative is like the forte piano which has come back into fashion recently... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5d9Dp1q5KU There is also a Don Giovanni from 1936, but I like that less https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc2cnc5uCiE&feature=relmfu The Don Ottavio is magnificent however, and if you don't have time to listen to the other clips I urge you just to hear this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GibbPaRa1S4 Dalla sua pace la mia dipende; Quel che a lei piace vita mi rende, Quel che le incresce morte mi dà. S'ella sospira, sospiro anch'io; È mia quell'ira, quel pianto è mio; E non ho bene, s'ella non l'ha.

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Keep coming in...you are a civilizing influence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNpi8AfuXf8&list=PL413C6114DAB74B2A&index=30&feature=plpp_video and this performance with the Introit not often heard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnbvWHW22Q&list=PL413C6114DAB74B2A&index=13&feature=plpp_video

Thanks for that, watched it last night. Beethoven has always been the composer of the time I have most problems with. A good friend of mine once said that he must have been very difficult to live with, and that isnt as trite as it sounds. He is a  a sort  of constant head-banger[:D] Yet there are moments of unalloyed joy... I like intimate more than grandiose so the big moments of the 9th or the Missa solemnis aren't quite my cup of tea. Yet I spent hours on the piano sonatas, and chamber music especially for violin and piano. I think it is interesting that you couldn't imagine Beethoven played on a recorder in the way  the same piece of Bach can be played on violin, keyboard or wind instrument. And talking of Bach, this seems to me ideal forces for one of my favourite cantatas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqqFQGV-H54&feature=related

I think that particular quartet manage the  emotional nuances which can easily be missed in some 'period' performances very well, with the added bonus of a clarity of tone, but I agree that sometimes  lesser performances can be a bit dry. I too am enjoying  the Barenboim orchestra, but I wish he would wear a tie [:)] PS thanks for the article...I am not convinced about Boulez though.

A sublime restrained interpretation of one of my favourite quartet movements on period instruments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqe-Ab_WPvo&feature=BFa&list=PLC50796A569A2F4FE

I walk slightly better than he does. Alas he plays so much better than I could ever imagine [:D]

Not in my usual vein, but this documentary is a gem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EnXnFgnkUc&feature=related and this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/07/woody-guthrie-centenary-protest-songs?INTCMP=SRCH

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A fantastically interesting programme. Thank you for the link it is not something I have seen before. After all these years in France I am amazed to see foreign leaders so articulate in English! Some how what they say seems more intelligent when they speak so well. Aung Yang Soo Kyi  is clearly one of those remarkably poised women who radiate inner tranquillity, yet one senses a iron spirit. Obviously she has to be measured given that the present situation in her country still hangs by a thread. Papandreo amazed me by saying exactly what I think about Europe. Listen again to the part where he talks of it being a Peace project, and the necessity for greater integration of banking financial and social systems

Thanks for that. It reminds me of a wedding I went to in countryside like that just a few years ago...

I know! Most of those concerts are at a minimum of 25€ which starts to add up, especially if I buy a ticket for the person who gives me a lift..

This is a charming conceit, so beautifully sung and played http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ep9wONkU2c&feature=em-share_video_user

Something completely different. I greatly enjoy Madeleine Peyroux who is to jazz what chamber music is to classical She is on tour here in July http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jeeY80n99Q&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvpCep2QtE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-cVgAU8K8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdK21k4lArQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT9EXNhV-gk&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BEnJzWrA8BC_kZJeBkPM-M&index=10&feature=plcp

We have a modest Music festival over the next few days, with artists from Eastern Europe and a choir from Barcelona as well as our own little orchestra under 'local boy made good' Jean Bernard Pommier who has now come back  home and runs some musical activities Here are a couple of clips one of him as a pianist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TF8DVLy0C8&feature=relmfu and as conductor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wdiSd4yTXo&feature=related The programme is here. I was delighted to be able to get out to the first concert last night thanks to my Scooter..  http://www.ville-beziers.fr/culture/fiche.cfm?num=1658&affecter=culture