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Is it true really true that there are no indispensable recordings of Don Carlos?
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I thought we had to restrict ourselves to 5 recordings. There are pretty indispensable recordings of all the major works aren’t there? I see Smittims has three indispensable Karajans.He could have added his Don Carlos as wellOriginally posted by Mandryka View PostComment
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Here are my five then
Marie Claire Alain's first Art of Fugue (Musical Heritage Society)
Gustav Leonhardt's second Art of Fugue (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)
Matteo Messori's Art of Fugue
Rudof Scheidegger's Art of Fugue
Wolfgang Rubsam's third Art of Fugue (Counterpoint Records)
Håkan Wikman's Art of FugueComment
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Oops! Thread title now amended to make clear.Originally posted by Mandryka View Post
I don't think this concept warrants a sub-forum but I plan on starting a thread each week during the 2024 Proms as the Proms Composer gets named.
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I do - it was a failed attempt at humour clearly.Originally posted by Mandryka View Post
Can you perhaps offer a Verdi fugue?Comment
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There's a fugue of sorts (more a fugato) in the Quam olim Abrahae section of the creepy Requiem!Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostComment
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Yes I thought there might be one in the Requiem - and a micro fugue at the end of Falstaff in Tutto Nel Mundo e Burla in Falstaff . Other than that I’m stumped - maybe one in the Four Sacred Pieces ?Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostComment
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Doesn't look like it:Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
I'm amused by the Te Deum being scored for a short soprano though.
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Wonderful pieces long or short !Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
Doesn't look like it:
I'm amused by the Te Deum being scored for a short soprano though.
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The Sanctus in the Requiem is an 8 part fugue for double chorus and there is another fugue towards the end of the Libera Me.Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post"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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My five indispensable Verdi recordings are probably
Simon Boccanegra, La Scala, Abbado, Freni, Cappuccilli, Carreras
La Traviata, Kleiber, Cotrubas, Domingo
Il Trovatore, Karajan, Callas, Di Stefano, Panerai
Macbeth, La Scala, Abbado, Verrett, Cappuccilli, Domingo
Ernani, La Scala, Muti, Freni, Domingo, Bruson, Ghiaurov
"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."
Lady Bracknell The importance of Being EarnestComment
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It's difficult not to opt for the whole of the Toscanini Verdi box on RCA – particularly for the incomparable Falstaff and Otello and for wonderful non-operatic things like the 'Te Deum'. But I know that these programmes aren't intended as 'historical' surveys. Given that, and going only for stereo recordings, here are five which I play often and with great pleasure:
Traviata, Kleiber/Cotrubas (DG)
Aida, Solti/Leontyne Price (Decca)
Falstaff, Solti/Geraint Evans (Decca)
Trovatore, Pappano/Gheorghiu (EMI/Warner)
Rigoletto, Giulini/Cotrubas, Domingo (DG)
But these are tough choices – there's a lot of great Verdi and it would be easy to come up with another five that are just as 'indispensable' (Giulini's Don Carlos, one of the Karajan Trovatores, Pappano's Requiem...and so on).
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Trovatore - Callas /Karajan
One of Callas's sadly all ropey sounding Traviatas - probably just the Giulini
Callas/Rigoletto
Don Carlos - Domngo/Caballe. Giulini
Macbeth - AbbadoComment
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