Maria Callas - Diva! The Ultimate Collection
CD
1996 EMI
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Maria Callas - Diva! The Ultimate Collection
CD
1996 EMI
The morning yesterday was spent in de-Scalfording mode. Emptying car, reconstituting the hifi, taking excess charity sale stuff to charity shop, donating the Łtake.
.... Getting hugs from the lovely charity shop manageress :kiss: .... hey, it's a difficult job but someone's got to do it. ;)
Then back home and time to relax and listen to a favourite recording ...
Ann Murray - Handel - it doesn't get better than this. :nono:
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https://open.spotify.com/album/4Uvsl6AtoiDQL50kyg4hBw
I must get round to watching / listening to Ann Murray's magnificently delightful Xerxes opera on DVD again.
And then off exploring again.
These are damn fine and will be re-investigated today ...
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https://open.spotify.com/album/0biGYcfMyLu5ItFqvYCxbk
All on LP to help run in my new cartridge ....
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https://open.spotify.com/album/0vc4o3qLrCAc0P4Te970X2
And, fascinatingly, some choral works by Serge R ...
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Here's the Spring Cantata on Spot - https://open.spotify.com/album/5ovdRFYYhgqTwVVzIah7KW
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New to me, and a very promising start I must say. Sound is thrillingly expansive on SACD.
This was immediately appealing and very enjoyable.
I'm not usually drawn to ballet suites, but these are just good orchestral music. :thumbsup:
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https://open.spotify.com/album/1nFuEaMTGQe56L9mhFhkiu
Blown away by the 1st work on this recording.
Cimbalom "concerto" in 7 movements. Loved it - and what a fascinating sound.
http://www.afolk.hu/bolt/components/...-concertos.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2xay5qlozJb5tQLpiYSC0N
And a couple of hours of Zelenka sonatas from this album
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https://open.spotify.com/album/0dQF6ur3jpKOF98PWx8LjM
Late evening bliss. :)
^ Weird - we must have been listeng to the Tchaik concerto at about the same time, Malcolm! :)
More LPs! ...
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I do like Zukerman's playing - one of the best, imo.
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Gilels in superb form, Oistrakh being Oistrakh (I am not a fan!).
This is very good, mostly, in a populist ClassicFM kind of way.
A Requiem by Robin Gibb, of Bee Gees fame, and his son RJ.
Really quite affecting. Although personally I can live without the later tracks with solo vocal :spew:. The orchestral and choral music is great, though. :thumbsup:
http://www.classicpopicons.com/image...robin_gibb.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2ifK6cdKYh7Isy5uK4gc4S
Massively negative and patronising review by some pompous twat from the BBC on Amazon. :eyebrows:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Titanic-Requ.../dp/B0070BG10U
That was a bit gooey. Good but gooey. So I needed to cleanse my musical pallette with .... Arne Nordheim .... avant-gardey type music, weird stuff but I quite liked it.
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Which led me on to his violin concerto. I quite liked that, too.
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https://open.spotify.com/album/21Qm38SMSXLpmiNeecllgJ
https://open.spotify.com/album/3x9nyw6vm5TfUwaJVqcTER
And finally that led me on to that thorny old chestnut, the Berg Violin Concerto ..... This has not been well received at Jerry Towers in the past.
I thought I'd give it another go, this time with my fave violinist of the moment Pinchas Zukerman. Conducted by Pierre Boulez.
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https://open.spotify.com/album/0VmWRE5EnQW4hD0vw20M2q
Hey, I quite liked it! :eek: