Strauss' Four Last Songs - 16 Apr Essential Classics
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by aeolium View PostRT, you can find examples of Popp singing the Vier letzte Lieder on youtube. There is an EMI Icon 7-CD set of Lucia Popp which is around £16 download and little more for the CDs and this includes the 4 last songs with Tennstedt conducting, as well as many other good things:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...pf_rd_i=468294
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I went to the Margaret Price memorial concert at the Wigmore Hall yesterday. At the end they played an apparently unissued recording of Price singing Beim Schlafengehen. I don't know who was conducting (Sawallisch?) but it was absolutely wonderful. Not too slow,like many performances nowadays, and peerlessly sung. Regrettably, I don't think there is recording with Price. If there was, I'd suggest it would be one of the best."I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostI am pretty sure she did? Maybe wrong!
NB was thginking of Schwarzkopf!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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amateur51
Originally posted by LHC View PostI went to the Margaret Price memorial concert at the Wigmore Hall yesterday. At the end they played an apparently unissued recording of Price singing Beim Schlafengehen. I don't know who was conducting (Sawallisch?) but it was absolutely wonderful. Not too slow,like many performances nowadays, and peerlessly sung. Regrettably, I don't think there is recording with Price. If there was, I'd suggest it would be one of the best.
"Fruhling" from the "Four Last Songs". LSO conducted by Andre Previn at the Royal Festival Hall, London....1981.
Margaret Price, Andre Previn and the LSO perform "September" from the "Four Last Songs" by Richard Strauss....1981.
"Beim Schlafengehen" from the "Four Last Songs"....... Royal Festival Hall 1981. The London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn.
Margaret Price, Andre Previn and the LSO at the Royal Festival Hall in 1981. Margaret Price never made a commercial recording of these songs so I hope this f...
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by salymap View PostHas anyone mentioned Renee Fleming? I like her performance I have on an old Video, think it was a Prom a few years ago.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostPianorak - please can you tell me more about Popp's interpretation? Amazon are offering it for £5.70 on a compilation disc:
Thanks, aeolium coming to the rescue!My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)
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Originally posted by waldhorn View PostThose YouTube tracks are SUBLIME. Unbelievably beautiful.
Presumably they come from BBC tapes?
What chance they may eventually surface on a BBC CD?
Lovely isn't it.
Sadly, the fact that she seems to have had a major memory lapse at the end of 'Früling" militates against a CD issue I guess (3:00 onwards for a while )"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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